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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DUJ34

1981-02-13 GOODYEAR, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4764M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F33A

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780427

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5DA54

Registrant of record

SPOONER JAMES LEONARD

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4764M Beech F33A 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 F33A · N4764M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

LITCHFIELD

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

120° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000CE-782

Total time

3,919 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

221

Age

26

Investigator remarks

CONTACTED RWY IN NOSE-LOW ATTITUDE.

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0241. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0241.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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