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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73FUM21

1973-03-08 CARLSBAD, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

LEAR JET 23 · N332PC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

PALOMAR

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

170° / 14 kt

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000023-056

Total time

4,108 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,113

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MUD.

Investigator remarks

LND IN KNOWN ADVERSE RWY COND. RAN OFF RWY INTO

Cause factors

  • 64/C/33 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
  • 80/C/BA C
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Cause
  • 88/C/92 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYDROPLANING ON WET RUNWAY Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 82/L/B L
    WEATHER RAIN

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 0443. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0443.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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