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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FVD02

1980-10-12 SAN RAFAEL, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1839C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1953 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550812

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A14F67

Registrant of record

OPLOH ELLI M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1839C Cessna 170B 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 170B · N1839C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SMITH RANCH

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025983

Total time

2,465 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

50

Age

34

Cause factors

64/A/62 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BF J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS 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 2779. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2779.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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