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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVA43

1980-04-25 FRESNO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2567F Piper PA-38 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-38 · N2567F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0038-79A0484

Total time

155 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

80

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F.ATMTD LNDG ON DIRT ROAD.

Investigator remarks

PLT FORGOT TO RESET THE DIRECTIONAL GYRO BFR TKO

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/03 C
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 2156. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2156.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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