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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVA21

1980-03-08 MODESTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8103H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1979 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790924

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB0C25

Registrant of record

ALLEGHANY FLYING CLUB INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8103H Piper PA-28 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-28 · N8103H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MODESTO COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-8090116

Total time

52 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

144

Age

42

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 0605. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0605.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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