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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX82FA027

1981-12-13 COALINGA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N42864 Cessna 182L Fatal

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 182L · N42864

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HARRIS RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

100° / 3 kt

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000059223

Total time

3,881 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

434

Age

43

Investigator remarks

PLT AT CONTROLS PRESUMED.UNLIGHTED TERRAIN.

Cause factors

64/A/66 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION 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 2950. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2950.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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