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ATL80FA086

1980-08-26 · LAKE CITY, South Carolina, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N19CF has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BELL UH-1H), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CHAMPION 7BCM · N19CF
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise climb (DB)
Operator type
D
Airport
CJ EVANS
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
00007BCM-469
Total time
1,314 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
500
Age
39

Investigator remarks

APPROX 47L35 OVR MAX TKOF WT.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/33 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Joint cause
  • 88/J/14 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Joint cause
  • 88/J/26 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2864. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2864.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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