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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUG19

1980-02-17 EL MONTE, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N51020 Cessna TU206F 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 TU206F · N51020

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

EL MONTE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U20601973

Total time

910 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,610

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RCED LNDG ON DEP ARPT AT NGT.RVR NR DEP END OF RWY

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W 2 PARKED ACFT & RETAINING WALL DRG FO

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause

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 2149. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2149.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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