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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FUM30

1980-09-07 BRAWLEY, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8629S Air Tractor AT-301 Serious

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

AIR TRACTOR AT-301 · N8629S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DN

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000301-0167

Total time

1,050 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,500

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ANNATE SPILLED IN COCKPIT 2 NIGHTS BEFORE.

Investigator remarks

PLT XMTD HE WAS SICK,RTB.THEN XMTD PASSING OUT.L

Cause factors

64/A/64 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION 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 3160. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3160.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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