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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77IA056

1977-07-08 LONG BEACH, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N75000 Douglas DC-7C None

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

DOUGLAS DC-7C · N75000

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000045094

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

27,000

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E(S).

Investigator remarks

PILOT INCAPACITATION FOR 30 MIN FRM UNKNOWN CAUS

Cause factors

64/A/64 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION 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 5 0015. Source file NTSB_1977_5_0015.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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