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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUG55

1979-09-06 EL MONTE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3219C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F35

Year of manufacture

1955 · 24 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E225 SERIES (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560521

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3759D

Registrant of record

MARTIN DANIEL P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3219C Beech F35 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 F35 · N3219C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

EL MONTE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-4161

Total time

3,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

631

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND BECAME DISCONNECTED.ACFT RAN INTO DITCH ON OVRN

Investigator remarks

PROP GOV CNTL ARM IMPRPRLY SECURD TO GOV SHAFT A

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
64/B/17 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE
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 1456. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1456.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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