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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUD05

1978-05-13 COMPTON, California, United States Serious 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

CESSNA 182 · N2148R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

COMPTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / — kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018255348

Total time

5,697 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

219

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CAVITY WITH FOIL. FOIL FOUND COLLAPSED.

Investigator remarks

PIC REMOVED LNDG LIGHT WINDOW ON WING & COVERED

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/33 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Joint 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 2733. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2733.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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