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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUM15

1980-03-09 CALEXICO, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5175K Navion B 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

NAVION B · N5175K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

Business

Airport

TORRANCE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002075

Total time

3,367 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,955

Age

67

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OULD STOP ENG.HIT CESSNA 177,N34924 & FUEL TRUCK.

Investigator remarks

STARTED ENG W FULL THROTTLE.ACFT MOVED BFR PLT C

Cause factors

64/A/36 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER STARTING PROCEDURES 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 0293. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0293.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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