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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL80DLQ25

1980-08-10 FRANKFORT, Kentucky, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N17894 Schweizer SGS233 Serious

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

SCHWEIZER SGS233 · N17894

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CAPITOL CITY

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 5 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000274

Total time

1,359 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

169

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E.TOW PLANE ABORTED.WING HIT GND,TURNING BTN TREES

Investigator remarks

ATMTD AERO TOW OFF 1700FT CLR AREA OF GOLF COURS

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint 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 2397. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2397.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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