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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVD26

1980-06-01 LITTLE RIVER, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8189N Piper PA-28 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-28 · N8189N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

MENDOCINO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

59° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25387

Total time

4,031 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,815

Age

59

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 1465. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1465.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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