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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DUJ82

1981-08-03 PEARCE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N714SJ Cessna 150M 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 150M · N714SJ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SUNSITES AIRSTRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015079395

Total time

2,807 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

VEERED RGT & HIT MESQUITE BUSH.

Investigator remarks

ENCTRD WTR AT LOW SPOT ON STRIP NR APCH END,THEN

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BK J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE 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 2266. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2266.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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