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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVG24

1980-04-10 COLUSA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 150 · N6085G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Z

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 5 kt

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015071585

Total time

6,489 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,150

Age

55

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTS TO 15KTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/21 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/C/02 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
  • 88/C/72 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
  • 82/L/G L
    WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 1403. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1403.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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