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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FA139

1980-09-03 SAN FRANCISCO, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2615Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210-5(205)

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-470 SER (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19991209

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A285D3

Registrant of record

CALHOON JOHN CHARLES

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2615Z Cessna 402C Serious

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

CESSNA 402C · N2615Z

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

E

Airport

INTERNATIONAL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET

Wind

310° / 10 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000110

Total time

1,763 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,654

Age

35

Investigator remarks

B-747 WAS ON STEEPER THAN NORMAL APCH.

Cause factors

84/A/1 A
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 3732. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3732.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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