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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DA003

1979-10-03 BURBANK, California, United States None 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 · N759GY

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BURBANK-GLENDALE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

085° / 5 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-65994

Total time

879 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,633

Age

68

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HILE PLT WAS STILL AT CONTROLS AFTER ENG SHUTDWN.

Investigator remarks

ACFT ROLLED BACKWARDS INTO BEECH BONANZA,N878R,W

Cause factors

  • 64/A/22 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/1/AW 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 3069. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3069.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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