NTSB CAROL · Event
Event LAX81DUJ28
Registry · N8702L
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BOEING 737-8
Year of manufacture
2018
TCDS
A16WE · BOEING
Engine
CFM INTL LEAP-1B28 SER
Seats / Engines
175 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
20180930
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S ABF8FF
Registrant of record
UMB BANK NA TRUSTEE
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
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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 0129.
Source file
NTSB_1981_3_0129.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
Beyond the agency record
Search this event elsewhere.
Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.
Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.
Official agency record + docket.
Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.
Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).
Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.
Gold-standard aviation incident blog.
Aviation industry news search.
GA pilot forum — informed but rumor-prone.
GA pilot subreddit search.
Tail-number page — flight history (free tier limited).
AOPA Air Safety Institute search.
Mainstream press coverage. Recent events only.
Privacy-preserving news search.
External links open in a new tab. We don't ingest their content; we deep-link search queries.