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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVM10

1979-12-23 MONTEREY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N700S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SOCATA TBM 700

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

P&W PT6A SER (750 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20010511

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9561E

Registrant of record

EXCITING AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BEECH 65-90 · N700S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

PENINSULA

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

120° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000LJ131

Total time

6,611 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

10,000

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CAME FROM ATIS.

Investigator remarks

WINDS GUSTING TO 40KNOTS.PILOTS ONLY WX BRIEFING

Cause factors

  • 64/A/24 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/I J
    WEATHER WIND SHEAR Joint 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 3041. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3041.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.