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Event ATL80FA058

1980-06-20 WEST LIBERTY, Kentucky, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N734YT Cessna 172N Fatal

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

CESSNA 172N · N734YT

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

WEST LIBERTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

060° / 3 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017269227

Total time

1,676 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

126

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.HIT TREETOP 250FT FM DEP END.STALL 1/2 MILE WEST.

Investigator remarks

BOUNCED LDG,SWERVED.GO-ARND WITH FULL CARB HT ON

Cause factors

64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
64/L/62 L
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2242. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2242.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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