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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUA24

1978-08-08 AVALON, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N64188 Cessna 172M Serious

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

CESSNA 172M · N64188

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

CATALINA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 6 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017265074

Total time

765 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

230

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.P/N C299505-0102-1075.

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE CABLE AT THROTTLE SWAGE FRAYED & PARTED

Cause factors

74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/BU C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FRAYED Cause
88/C/BM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint factor

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 2474. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2474.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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