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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX81FVD17

1981-04-11 HAYWARD, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5468B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6F1A8

Registrant of record

ABIDANCE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 · N5468B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

HAYWARD AIR TERM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000033468

Total time

1,960 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,308

Age

41

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/23 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0803. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0803.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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