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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DXQ19

1980-03-21 BATTLE MTN, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3AQ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180

Year of manufacture

1955 · 25 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560625

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31AAF

Registrant of record

SINNOTT-SIMONIS LYLE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 180 · N3AQ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BATTLE MOUNTAIN

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000317144

Total time

3,674 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

25

Age

36

Investigator remarks

WND GSTG 10KTS

Cause factors

  • 64/A/28 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2150. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2150.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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