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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DUQ08

1981-01-25 MOJAVE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8490P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

POWRACHUTE LLC AIRWOLF 912ULS

Year of manufacture

2018

Engine

ROTAX 912ULS SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20180608

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABA3AE

Registrant of record

EASY FLIGHT AVIATION LLC

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

QUICKIE II · N8490P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

K

Airport

MOJAVE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000QIIQLG

Total time

150 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

730

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N CAUSED CANOPY TO SEPARATE FROM ACFT.

Investigator remarks

ONE BLADE OF NON-CERTIFICATED PROP SEPD.VIBRATIO

Cause factors

  • 74/C/FA C
    POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 64/B/25 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
  • 70/L/BH L
    AIRFRAME WINDSHIELDS,WINDOWS,CANOPIES
  • 88/L/CV L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE
  • 88/K/49 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint factor

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 0155. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0155.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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