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LAX81DUJ28

1981-01-10 · PEORIA, Arizona, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N8702L has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BOEING 737-8, built 2018), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
RAVEN RX-6 · N8702L
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
D
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EJ
Operator type
Z
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
045° / 10 kt
Temp
65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000RX-6-160
Total time
211 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FIELD,PLT BEGAN BURNING AS PAX DUMPED HOT AIR.

Investigator remarks

BALLOON DRAGGED TOWARD PWR LINES DRG LDG IN OPEN

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/K4 A
    PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0129. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0129.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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