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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DA047

1980-02-08 SAUGUS, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N420SA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AIR TRACTOR INC AT-402

Year of manufacture

1990

TCDS

A17SW · AIR TRACTOR INC

Engine

P&W PT6A SERIES (500 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950303

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4FD30

Registrant of record

KINGREY WILLIAM S III

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

NORD-AVION 262 · N420SA

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000008

Total time

8,583 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,500

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UNTERED DWNDFT.

Investigator remarks

FLT ATTENDANT THROWN AGAINST SEAT WHEN ACFT ENCO

Cause factors

  • 82/A/M A
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/R0 A
    PERSONNEL FLIGHT ATTENDANT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/12 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/CZ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT SIGN ON Joint 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 0187. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0187.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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