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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FVM35

1980-07-12 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7LD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DIAMOND AIRCRAFT HK 36 TTC

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A950DA

Registrant of record

WIEDERKEHR ANTHONY C

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

ROCKWELL 114 · N7LD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SKY PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000014282

Total time

506 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

176

Age

51

Investigator remarks

RIGHT TIRE FAILURE.

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CF A
    AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2144. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2144.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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