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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVD06

1980-10-31 OAKLAND, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62858 Piper PA-31 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-31 · N62858

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

OAKLAND INTL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

100° / 4 kt

Temp

57° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0031-7652115

Total time

3,006 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,400

Age

33

Investigator remarks

RT ENG FAILURE.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/06 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF
88/K/DF K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE 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 3365. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3365.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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