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LAX81DUQ33

1981-09-13 · GOLETA, California, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MITSUBISHI MU-2 · N100NP
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
Business
Airport
SANTA BARBARA
Kind of flying
B2

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
220° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000004235A
Total time
390 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
4,808
Age
42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E PUT GEAR DWN,DUSK.NO GEAR MALFUNCTION FOUND.

Investigator remarks

PLT RPRTD ENCTRG ELEC PROBLEM W AC SYS,THOUGHT H

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/39 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3010. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3010.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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