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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUG05

1979-10-27 CORONA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8807R Bellanca 14-19 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

BELLANCA 14-19 · N8807R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

CORONA MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Wind

240° / 9 kt

Temp

81° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004159

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PWR.

Investigator remarks

PLT UN TO FIND NRBY ARPT IN SMOG AFTER ENG LOST

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
82/K/V K
WEATHER OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3752. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3752.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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