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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX7LFVA15

1975-10-01 BAKERSFIELD, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9LC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH D55

Year of manufacture

1968 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19680408

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC6B77

Registrant of record

VALIAIR LTD CO TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9LC Beech 95-A55 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 95-A55 · N9LC

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MEADOWS FIELD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

070° / 4 kt

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TC336

Total time

4,677 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,500

Age

55

Investigator remarks

PILOT TOOK OFF TOO SOON AFTR DEPTNG 727

Cause factors

84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause
64/B/54 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE

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 3002. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3002.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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