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ATL81FIA11

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

N469HF has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (EAVISION EA-J150), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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