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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DUJ60

1980-05-26 MESA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2383L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T206H

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

LYCOMING TIO-540-AJ1A (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20071029

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A22904

Registrant of record

NEBRASKA STATE PATROL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2383L Piper PA-38 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 PA-38 · N2383L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0038-79A0688

Total time

399 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

62

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LT,HIT PWR LNS.LNDD ON SAND BAR.

Investigator remarks

PARTIAL PWR LOSS AFTER SIM ENG OUT.UN TO MAINT A

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 1629. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1629.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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