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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUJ32

1981-01-27 CASA GRANDE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N21872

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FIREFLY BALLOONS INC FIREFLY 7-15

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040719

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1DAA2

Registrant of record

MCCALL FREDDIE W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N21872 Cessna A188B 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

CESSNA A188B · N21872

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CASA GRANDE MUNI

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001090

Total time

1,640 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

303

Age

24

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0381. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0381.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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