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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUJ19

1977-12-21 MESA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N183Z Cessna 185F 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

CESSNA 185F · N183Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

FALCON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018502671

Total time

9 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,550

Age

53

Investigator remarks

R SEAT TKOF. R RUDDER PEDAL COLLAPSED.

Cause factors

75/C/CE C
SYSTEMS RUDDER AND RUDDER TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/47 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3751. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3751.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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