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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DUG51

1980-08-11 UPLAND, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2047B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1978 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19781103

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1A42E

Registrant of record

FIELD INSPECTION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2047B Beech A36 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

BEECH A36 · N2047B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CABLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

386 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

154

Age

34

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED L BRAKE GRABBED.

Cause factors

70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1655. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1655.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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