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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FA016

1979-11-20 SANTA BARBARA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9042K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SLIPSTREAM INDUSTRIES INC GENESIS

Engine

ROTAX SEE BOMBADIER

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040923

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC80B0

Registrant of record

HELLER JOHN S SR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9042K Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N9042K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 12 kt

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7890172

Total time

927 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

274

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

APRX 80FT BLO MTN TOPS.

Investigator remarks

AFTER TKOF,PLT RPRTD CLIMBING TO 7500FT.CRASHED

Cause factors

64/A/52 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 3510. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3510.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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