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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX82FVA09

1981-12-03 CORCORAN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4248X AERO COMDR S-2R 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 S-2R · N4248X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

B & G AIR STRIP

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000002024R

Total time

2,704 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,090

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CYL HEAD SEPD FM CYL.

Investigator remarks

NR 1 CYL ASSY,PN 366249,FAILED IN THREADED AREA,

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3002. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3002.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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