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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FA110

1981-08-23 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 99 · N124CA

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

E

Airport

NATIONAL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000U83

Total time

23,554 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

4,530

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TO ACFT,WALKED ARND ACFT TO GIVE BAGS TO LOADER.

Investigator remarks

AFT LOADING,R ENG STARTED.LATE PAX NOT ESCORTED

Cause factors

  • 68/A/E5 A
    PERSONNEL DEFICIENCY,COMPANY MAINTAINED EQPMT,SERVICES,REGULATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/K4 A
    PERSONNEL PASSENGER 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 1898. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1898.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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