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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUM19

1979-07-01 SAN DIEGO, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N207FH Beech V35A Serious

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 V35A · N207FH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

MONTGOMERY FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-8829

Total time

1,478 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

783

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

W FUEL TNKS THAN HALF FULL.

Investigator remarks

ACFT PLACARDS WARN-AVOID SLIPS (20 SEC OR MORE)

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause

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 2025. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2025.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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