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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVG23

1980-03-29 GRENADA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6LB STARDUSTER SA-100 Fatal

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

STARDUSTER SA-100 · N6LB

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

SPRAWLS STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000LP-01-B

Total time

225 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

700

Age

44

Investigator remarks

NO 3 CONNECTING ROD CAP FAILED.

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 1391. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1391.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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