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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DUJ81

1980-07-08 BISBEE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N26721 GRUM-AMER AA-5A 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

GRUM-AMER AA-5A · N26721

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BISBEE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

225° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA5A-0674

Total time

225 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

375

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TS.

Investigator remarks

PLT ESTIMATE WND SHIFT FM 090 TO 200DEG,GSTG 30K

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
82/L/J L
WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT
82/L/X L
WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/K/DF K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE Joint factor
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1628. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1628.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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