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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DUJ99

1981-09-01 MARICOPA, Arizona, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N71949

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DASSAULT FALCON 2000EX

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

P&W CANADA PW308C

Seats / Engines

19 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20241230

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9A082

Registrant of record

WILSHIRE RENTAL CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N71949 Glasflugel H301B Serious

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

GLASFLUGEL H301B · N71949

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ESTRELLA SAILPORT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

105° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000081

Total time

1,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

63

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

X 75FT AGL.RLSD TOW ROPE TO AVOID INVOLVING TOWPLN

Investigator remarks

TKOF W SPOILERS UNLOCKED.SPOILERS POPPED OUT APR

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2290. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2290.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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