Atlas / NTSB / LAX79FUT01

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUT01

1979-06-22 DAGGETT, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N357AL Douglas DC-7C 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

DOUGLAS DC-7C · N357AL

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Z

Airport

BARSTOW DAGGETT

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 12 kt

Temp

93° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000045229

Total time

25,870 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ETONATION DMG.FUELED W 100 OCT.SMUGGLING OPN.

Investigator remarks

2981LBS OVER MAX G/W.NO 3&4 ENGS SHOWED SEVERE D

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/37 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL GRADE-IMPROPER Cause
88/C/76 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G. Cause
64/B/81 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF

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 1192. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1192.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.