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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DVM23

1981-05-30 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 182 · N4838N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SANTA CRUZ

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018267408

Total time

510 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

315

Age

22

Investigator remarks

WND GSTG 14KTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/46 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/82 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
  • 82/J/J J
    WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT Joint cause
  • 88/J/DH J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint 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 1578. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1578.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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