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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL80DKM17

1980-05-01 GREENSBORO, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2KT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 7BCM

Year of manufacture

1946 · 34 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550804

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18E44

Registrant of record

CAMBRIDGE VALLEY FLYING CLUB INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2KT Aeronca 7BCM 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

AERONCA 7BCM · N2KT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SOUTHEAST

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

979 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,390

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENT OFF R SIDE OF RWY.

Investigator remarks

T/D IN 3 POINT ATTITUDE.SWERVED LEFT,CORRECTED,W

Cause factors

66/C/79 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause

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 0654. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0654.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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