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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUG05

1978-11-11 LUCERNE, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N94HD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182H

Year of manufacture

1965 · 13 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD0B82

Registrant of record

FREED PHILIP B

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

AERO COMDR 680W · N94HD

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001811-28

Total time

2,790 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,420

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SAMPLE.

Investigator remarks

2 MICRO GMS/MILL BENZO DIAZEPIND FOUND IN BLOOD

Cause factors

  • 64/A/65 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT 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 3932. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3932.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.