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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DUG10

1979-12-01 EL MONTE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N17579

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J-2

Year of manufacture

1936 · 43 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-145B SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19701103

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A12F2F

Registrant of record

BELL LAWRENCE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N17579 Piper J-2 None

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

PIPER J-2 · N17579

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

EL MONTE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

220° / 7 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001079

Total time

2,618 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

821

Age

32

Cause factors

65/C/62 C
COPILOT Cause
65/C/42 C
COPILOT 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 3878. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3878.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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