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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DUJ32

1980-02-17 TACNA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N300AT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ALEXANDER SCHLEICHER GMBH & CO ASW 27-18

Year of manufacture

2012

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130111

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31F64

Registrant of record

KELLER CATHERINE M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N300AT Air Tractor AT-300 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

AIR TRACTOR AT-300 · N300AT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DG

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000300-0017

Total time

2,069 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,749

Age

35

Investigator remarks

ALFALFA

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0452. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0452.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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