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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVA42

1980-05-24 FRESNO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1238V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FLEET FLEET 16B

Year of manufacture

1948 · 32 years old at event

Engine

KINNER B5 SERIES (125 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651124

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0625B

Registrant of record

PHILBRICK RODNEY C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1238V Fleet 16B 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

FLEET 16B · N1238V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

FRESNO AIR TERMNL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

350° / 20 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000512

Total time

1,826 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

542

Age

68

Investigator remarks

PILOT REPORTED GUSTS OF UNKNOWN VELOCITY.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1490. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1490.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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