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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81DXQ21

1981-07-17 GERLACH, Nevada, 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

BEECH 65-80 · N6867Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Z

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000LD-223

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Investigator remarks

MARIJUANA RESIDUE FOUND AT CRASH SITE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/F J
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1795. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1795.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.