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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVM15

1980-02-15 SALINAS, 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

CESSNA 182 · N2633G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

SALINAS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000051933

Total time

4,045 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,436

Age

52

Investigator remarks

STRAINER VALVE,P/N 0850410-1,STUCK OPEN.

Cause factors

  • 74/A/CE A
    POWERPLANT FILTERS,STRAINERS,SCREENS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/CS A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STUCK Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/51 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE 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 0459. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0459.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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