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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL80FLJ17

1980-06-23 KINSTON, North Carolina, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N60BW Beech B19 Minor

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

BEECH B19 · N60BW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

EASTERN REGIONAL

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MB509

Total time

3,369 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

591

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FAILED-ROD END SEIZED IN BELL CRANK.

Investigator remarks

UN MAINTAIN LATERAL CTL.L AIL PUSH-PULL ROD END

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/CA A
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/80 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1749. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1749.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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