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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76DUM19

1976-02-19 CARLSBAD, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N679 Aerosport Quail Serious

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

AEROSPORT QUAIL · N679

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

PALOMAR

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

060° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000007

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

50

Age

49

Investigator remarks

VW ENG. ACFTS FIRST FLT.

Cause factors

74/C/CJ C
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause
88/C/AE C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER/INADEQUATE VENTING Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
68/C/J2 C
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 3 0404. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0404.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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