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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DVG27

1981-04-25 MAXWELL, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N22RA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SF50

Year of manufacture

2021

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ33-5A

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20210520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1E020

Registrant of record

COOP AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N22RA Grumman G164 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

GRUMMAN G164 · N22RA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

WORLD AGRI-AIR

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

135° / 5 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000624

Total time

2,324 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,000

Age

47

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 0900. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0900.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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