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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUG20

1980-02-19 CORONA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1796M Cessna 182P None

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 182P · N1796M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CORONA MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

220° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018264449

Total time

1,253 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

238

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S.

Investigator remarks

FORCED LNDG IN SEWAGE HLDG POND.WND GUSTING 30KT

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 0185. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0185.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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