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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FA100

1980-05-26 LOS BANOS, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2061S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

REED CHARLES CHALLENGER

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950405

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1AAD9

Registrant of record

PRICE-STREATER TERRY W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2061S Beech A36 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 A36 · N2061S

Damage

Destroyed

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

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000E-1430

Total time

450 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,030

Age

29

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 3726. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3726.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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