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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FVA21

1978-07-04 AVALON, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N182DJ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182P

Year of manufacture

1973 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730626

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1486E

Registrant of record

PRESTON ROBERT H

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 182 · N182DJ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

L

Airport

CATALINA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

230° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018262129

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

115

Age

55

Investigator remarks

FIREWALL DMGD.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/25 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/62 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1607. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1607.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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