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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX82DVA04

1981-10-04 BAKERSFIELD, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8568 AERO COMDR S2R 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

AERO COMDR S2R · N8568

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001606R

Total time

4,241 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,540

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EL TOP.

Investigator remarks

NO 1 CYL FAILED AT END OF THREADED AREA,CYL BARR

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2365. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2365.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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