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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FA029

1979-02-10 COMPTON, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N86724 Bellanca 14-13 Fatal

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

BELLANCA 14-13 · N86724

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

COMPTON

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001085

Total time

2,195 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

90

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND REVERSED.

Investigator remarks

ACFT REBUILT BY OWNER/PLT.AIL CONTROL SYSTEM FOU

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/J6 A
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/CA A
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BK A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CROSSED 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 0348. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0348.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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