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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FVM27

1979-06-17 PASO ROBLES, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1450 Bensen B8M Fatal

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

BENSEN B8M · N1450

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

PASO ROBLES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

300° / 14 kt

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

181 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

259

Age

67

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G BENT & STRAIGHTENED IN THE FIELD.

Investigator remarks

PREVIOUS HARD LNDGS RESULTED W CONTROL RODS BEIN

Cause factors

84/C/I C
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 1859. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1859.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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