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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUG37

1977-04-01 LA VERNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3854C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180

Year of manufacture

1954 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560505

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A470C4

Registrant of record

ANDERSON CLINT T

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

CESSNA 180 · N3854C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BRACKETT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

260° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000031002

Total time

2,882 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

208

Age

27

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 20K.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0449. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0449.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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