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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DUJ83

1981-08-05 WILLCOX, Arizona, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1625S Snow 600S2C Minor

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

SNOW 600S2C · N1625S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000600-1180C

Total time

5,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

17,822

Age

59

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G LNDG ON GRAVEL ROAD.

Investigator remarks

OFF ARPT OPN.L WING ENCTRD TALL JOHNSON GRASS DR

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/L/D L
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION

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 2283. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2283.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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