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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79DUJ52

1979-02-27 MARICOPA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6705Z Piper PA-25 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-25 · N6705Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

MARCEL BOULAISE

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-2312

Total time

2,192 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

1,034

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CK MT FUEL DRUM.RT LNDG GEAR SHEARED.ACFT NOSE OVR

Investigator remarks

FOL MOMENTARY LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONT,ACFT STRU

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 0375. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0375.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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