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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79DVA29

1979-04-20 AVENAL, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9434W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER/VALDES-ERVIN PA-28-235

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770808

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD1B46

Registrant of record

JOHNSON JAMES E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9434W Piper PA-28 Minor

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-28 · N9434W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000VE7711

Total time

1,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

700

Age

56

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/D B
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION

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 0734. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0734.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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