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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DUJ69

1981-06-18 BULLHEAD CITY, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N19058 Cessna 150L None

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 150L · N19058

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BULLHEAD CITY

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

100° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015074132

Total time

3,795 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

44

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L SIDES OF ARPT.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK PWR LN APRX 2MI FM RWY AT NGT.HILLS ON AL

Cause factors

64/A/48 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/22 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 1556. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1556.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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