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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FA057

1981-03-23 ROANOKE, Virginia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3641U Aerostar 601P 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

AEROSTAR 601P · N3641U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

WOODRUM

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

010° / 7 kt

Temp

38° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

610208063429

Total time

140 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,352

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y SAME INDIVIDUAL ON OVERTIME DUE SUPRVSR ILLNESS.

Investigator remarks

ACFT REFUELED 3/8/81 W 100LL & 3/20/81 W JET A B

Cause factors

68/C/D2 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPERLY SERVICED AIRCRAFT (GROUND CREW) Cause
88/C/37 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL GRADE-IMPROPER Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION
68/L/E3 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE SUPERVISION/TRAINING OF RAMP CREWS
88/K/48 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES 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 1019. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1019.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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