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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FVA62

1981-09-15 KETTLEMAN CITY, California, United States Fatal 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

AERO COMDR 600S2R · N3655X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000013755

Total time

4,146 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,441

Age

34

Investigator remarks

STRUCK PWR LNS.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 2310. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2310.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.