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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUA18

1980-08-10 NEWPORT BEACH, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9554Q Beech V35TC Minor

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 V35TC · N9554Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JOHN WAYNE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

230° / 7 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D8194

Total time

2,616 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,366

Age

46

Investigator remarks

NR3 EXH VALVE FAILED.LNDD IN CITY STREET.

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER Joint factor

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 3749. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3749.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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