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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVA16

1980-02-26 FRESNO, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8176Y Piper PA-30 Minor

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-30 · N8176Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

FRESNO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000030-1291

Total time

3,214 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,255

Age

59

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1400. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1400.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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