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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FA067

1980-03-16 SAN DIEGO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6732X Beech A36TC 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

BEECH A36TC · N6732X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MONTGOMERY FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

260° / 7 kt

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000EA60

Total time

31 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

854

Age

39

Investigator remarks

SUSPECTED FUEL LEAK IN TURBOCHARGER COMPARTMENT.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/64 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION
88/L/51 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE
88/L/50 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN CABIN,COCKPIT,BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT
88/L/AC L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN

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 1660. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1660.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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