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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVG65

1980-08-10 LINCOLN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2624X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA P206

Year of manufacture

1965 · 15 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790713

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A28965

Registrant of record

BRITTON DANIEL W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2624X Cessna P206 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

CESSNA P206 · N2624X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000002060124

Total time

3,968 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

418

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AF ROLLER NEST RESIDUE.

Investigator remarks

FUEL SCREEN CLOGGED W CLOTH LINT,FUEL ALGAE & LE

Cause factors

68/C/D8 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3422. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3422.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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