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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUG49

1981-09-05 WRIGHTWOOD, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N80EB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ULTRAVIA AERO INTL INC PELICAN SPORT/A

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

ROTAX SEE BOMBADIER

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20021119

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AADFEA

Registrant of record

ALIAKBAR KHALIL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N80EB QUICKIE 1 Serious

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

QUICKIE 1 · N80EB

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000297

Total time

74 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

207

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AIL.EXHAUST VLV IN R CYL BENT,ONAN ENG.

Investigator remarks

ATMTD TO LND ON HWY NR CAJON PASS,STRUCK GUARD R

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/AZ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BENT Cause
88/C/BA C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BINDING Cause
82/K/W K
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE 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 2348. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2348.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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