Atlas / NTSB / LAX79FUJ77

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUJ77

1979-05-29 PHOENIX, Arizona, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N783EF AERO COMDR 680-FL 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

AERO COMDR 680-FL · N783EF

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

SKY HARBOR INTL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 10 kt

Temp

92° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001392-51

Total time

5,658 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,255

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CKUPS ALLOWING AIR TO ENTER FUEL LINES.

Investigator remarks

VIOLENT WINGROCK ON FINAL UNCOVERED FUEL SUMP PI

Cause factors

84/A/1 A
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/B/96 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION

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 1831. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1831.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.