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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FJA18

1980-06-14 KAHULUI, Hawaii, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N172JB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172M

Year of manufacture

1973 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730917

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A12165

Registrant of record

WOOD JONATHAN R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N172JB Cessna 172N 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

CESSNA 172N · N172JB

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

KAHULUI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET

Wind

066° / 11 kt

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017270442

Total time

1,424 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

60

Age

22

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 1500. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1500.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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