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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUJ22

1980-01-06 PARKER, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N288D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SF50

Year of manufacture

2025

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ33-5A

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2EBFE

Registrant of record

DANIEL DANNY E JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

MIDGET MUSTNG · N288D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

PARKER MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000645

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,000

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ANEUVER.

Investigator remarks

R WING SEPD DRG A LOW-LEVEL HI-SPEED ACROBATIC M

Cause factors

  • 64/A/09 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/J/AA J
    AIRFRAME SPARS Joint cause
  • 88/J/94 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause
  • 88/J/49 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint 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 2561. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2561.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.