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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FVA09

1980-11-04 FRESNO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N88RP Beech B90 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

BEECH B90 · N88RP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

Business

Airport

FRESNO AIR TERM.

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000LJ-491

Total time

4,859 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,000

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EXITING RIGHT FRONT SEAT.

Investigator remarks

PAX INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED LANDING GEAR WHILE

Cause factors

68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/D6 J
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Joint cause
70/J/CN J
AIRFRAME SWITCHES,LEVERS,CRANKING MECHANISM,ETC. Joint cause
88/J/47 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Joint cause

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 3001. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3001.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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