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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUG49

1980-07-26 ADELANTO, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3465 BLANIK L-13 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

BLANIK L-13 · N3465

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ADELANTO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

57

Age

42

Investigator remarks

TOW ROPE BROKE DRG TKOF.HIT DESERT BRUSH.

Cause factors

76/A/CE A
INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES GLIDER LAUNCH/TOW EQUIPMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1654. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1654.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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