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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DJA08

1980-01-05 PALMYRA ISLAND, Hawaii, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N163R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 680

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

P&W CANADA PW306C

Seats / Engines

9 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20070924

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0FE4A

Registrant of record

SUMMIT AIR LLC

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

LOCKHEED 18 · N163R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

PALMYRA

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

060° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000002492A

Total time

4,714 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

22,710

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CH,BUT CALM BLO TREE LVL ON RWY.

Investigator remarks

PLT ESTD CROSS WIND GUSTING TO 15KTS ON FINAL AP

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 82/L/I L
    WEATHER WIND SHEAR

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 0344. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0344.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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