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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FA049

1981-02-22 AVALON, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N324Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182P

Year of manufacture

1976 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19991118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A37F52

Registrant of record

CESSCON LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N324Y Sikorsky S-62A Fatal

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

SIKORSKY S-62A · N324Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

PEBBLY BEACH

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000062012

Total time

7,206 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,400

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF DISK SEPD.INPUT CTL ROD TO L LAT PRI SERVO SEPD

Investigator remarks

MAIN ROTOR DISK FAILED FM FATIGUE,60DEG SEGMENT

Cause factors

78/A/AK A
ROTORCRAFT MAIN ROTOR BRAKE ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3580. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3580.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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