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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FIA11

1981-09-27 BRANDY STATION, Virginia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N469HF Bede BD-5B Serious

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

BEDE BD-5B · N469HF

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

170° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000465

Total time

25 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,015

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& CAUSED ENG TO MALFUNCTION.

Investigator remarks

WATER HOSE RUPTURED,WATER SPRAYED ON DISTRIBUTOR

Cause factors

74/C/E9 C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2121. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2121.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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