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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUD01

1981-05-06 SANTA MONICA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1281R Bellanca 17-31 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

BELLANCA 17-31 · N1281R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000031025

Total time

1,559 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,905

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SURF.

Investigator remarks

DITCHED NR SHORE.ACFT WASHED ASHORE & POUNDED ON

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/G K
TERRAIN ROUGH WATER Joint factor
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 2374. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2374.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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