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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FUM16

1981-06-20 EL CAJON, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N57982 ERCO 415-D 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

ERCO 415-D · N57982

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

GILLESPIE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003513

Total time

2,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

560

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-OIL EXHAUSTION FOR UNDETERMINED REASON

Investigator remarks

ONLY 4 OUNCES OF OIL FOUND IN ENG.

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1383. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1383.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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