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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVG67

1980-08-19 LINCOLN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N1329B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

LINCOLN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

150° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005956

Total time

1,733 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

778

Age

51

Investigator remarks

PLT USING COPLTS R RUDDER PEDAL DURING LNDG.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 2572. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2572.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.