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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DUJ64

1980-05-16 PARKER, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1039T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1977 · 3 years old at event

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770502

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0137E

Registrant of record

JERA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1039T Beech A-36 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 A-36 · N1039T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LINCOLN RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000E1059

Total time

1,069 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,429

Age

46

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 1366. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1366.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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