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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX82FUM01

1981-10-05 CALIPATRIA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5566X 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 · N5566X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DN

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 3 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001766R

Total time

2,536 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,079

Age

32

Investigator remarks

LOOKING FOR NURSE RIG AFTER DISPENSING LOAD.

Cause factors

64/A/08 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 2341. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2341.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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