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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79DUJ63

1979-04-18 GOODYEAR, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4753M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F33A

Year of manufacture

1978 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780412

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5D67A

Registrant of record

PALOTAS ANNE MARIE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4753M Beech F33A 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

BEECH F33A · N4753M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

PHOENIX LITCHFLD

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CE780

Total time

1,338 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

4,850

Age

43

Investigator remarks

SOFT FIELD TKOF.

Cause factors

64/A/24 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 3 0991. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0991.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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