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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUM04

1980-11-16 SAN DIEGO, California, 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

CESSNA 182 · N96528

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LINDBERGH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000467567

Total time

695 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,498

Age

27

Investigator remarks

CONSTRUCTION AREA NOT LISTED ON ATIS.

Cause factors

  • 68/A/H1 A
    PERSONNEL FAILURE TO NOTIFY OF UNSAFE COND/AND OR FAILURE TO MARK OBSTRUCTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/A/BE A
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES UNMARKED OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3361. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3361.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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