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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVD36

1980-08-12 STOCKTON, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N56323 Boeing A75L3 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

BOEING A75L3 · N56323

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

PANELLA RANCH

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 1 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-4830

Total time

5,426 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,517

Age

34

Investigator remarks

R BRAKE FAILED.

Cause factors

70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
80/J/BF J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS 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 1837. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1837.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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