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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77IA037

1977-04-13 SAN DIEGO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N707DA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T182T

Year of manufacture

2007

TCDS

3A13 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

LYCOMING TIO-540-AK1A (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20071008

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A96EDB

Registrant of record

PROP FLYING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

LOCKHEED 1011 · N707DA

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Airport

LINDBERG FIELD

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000193C-1077

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y FAILED.LNDD LAX OK.

Investigator remarks

L ELEV OUTBOARD AFT DRIVE QUAD UPPER BEARING ASS

Cause factors

  • 75/A/CC A
    SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/CD A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 4 0004. Source file NTSB_1977_4_0004.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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