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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66F0087

1965-05-16 VAN NUYS, California, United States None 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9026C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AIRBUS A319-115

Year of manufacture

2015

TCDS

A28NM · AIRBUS SAS

Engine

CFM INTL CFM56-5B7

Seats / Engines

147 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20150123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC79C7

Registrant of record

AMERICAN AIRLINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

BEECHCRAFT D-35 · N2094D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FALLBROOK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,931 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

120

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R LANDING REFERENCE.

Investigator remarks

NIGHT LANDING UTILIZING AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHTS FO

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED 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 2580. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2580.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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