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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78DUQ03

1977-10-09 BURBANK, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5169P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580617

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A67B5A

Registrant of record

STOCKDALE ALEXANDER IAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5169P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N5169P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HOLLYWOOD BURBANK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000187

Total time

3,826 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,054

Age

48

Investigator remarks

FRACTURED AT HUB,BLADES CAME LOOSE.

Cause factors

74/A/FB A
POWERPLANT HUBS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause

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 3 3068. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3068.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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