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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUM29

1980-09-06 CALIPATRIA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9961P Piper PA-36 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

PIPER PA-36 · N9961P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

CALIPATRIA

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0036-7560072

Total time

1,510 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

11,800

Age

40

Investigator remarks

DUSTING SUGAR BEETS W SEVIN BAIT.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/DC K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOAD NOT JETTISONED 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 2827. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2827.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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