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LAX80DXQ40

1980-09-20 · WARM SPGS VLY, Nevada, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N9QB has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (ESKILDSEN STEEN SKYBOLT, built 1975), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PITTS S-1E · N9QB
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
045° / 5 kt
Temp
70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000SB3
Total time
8 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,300
Age
56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N.LOST FUEL PRES DRG FLT.CARB DIAPHRAMS DISTORTED.

Investigator remarks

SMALL FIRE,CARB AIRBOX BFR FLT.TKOF AFT VIS INSP

Cause factors

  • 68/C/D6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
  • 74/C/CG C
    POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
  • 88/C/AH C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Cause
  • 88/C/BF C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BURNED Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 83/K/D K
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2718. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2718.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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