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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FA005

1979-10-19 PALO ALTO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N65103 Swearingen SA26AT Fatal

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

SWEARINGEN SA26AT · N65103

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

PALO ALTO

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000T26-140E

Total time

2,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

3,331

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CRASHED INVERTED.L ENG BIRD INJESTION.7 ACFT DMGD

Investigator remarks

IFR CANCELLED,VFR LDG HARD,ABORTED LDG ROLL LEFT

Cause factors

84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
64/A/44 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION 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 3962. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3962.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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