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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL80DKM26

1980-09-01 HUNTERSVILLE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N12BH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DEHAVILLAND DHC-1B-2-S3

Year of manufacture

1956 · 24 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050321

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0517A

Registrant of record

HANGAR 13 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N12BH DEHAVILLAND DHC-1B 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

DEHAVILLAND DHC-1B · N12BH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

BRAFORD

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000139

Total time

3,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,510

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AILSLIDE MANEUVER.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED ENG SET AT IDLE FOR 20-30SEC DURING T

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS 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 2063. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2063.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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