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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DCA80AA007

1979-11-18 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N859U Lockheed 188C 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

LOCKHEED 188C · N859U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Airport

SALT LK CTY INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

180° / 7 kt

Temp

41° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000016

Total time

41,764 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

20,000

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOR UNDET REASON.

Investigator remarks

PROGRESSIVE VOLTAGE DECAY ON PRIORITY BUS A SYS

Cause factors

75/C/AY C
SYSTEMS OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/33 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE Cause
64/B/66 B
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
82/L/F L
WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC.
88/K/49 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 1 0017. Source file NTSB_1979_1_0017.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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