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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVD13

1980-03-08 SAN RAFAEL, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N82454 Piper PA-18 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-18 · N82454

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SMITH RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000187809140

Total time

347 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,500

Age

54

Investigator remarks

LNDD W QTRG TAIL WND GSTG 6KTS.

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
88/J/AQ J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint cause

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 2155. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2155.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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