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ATL81FKW05

1980-11-13 · SIGNAL MT, Tennessee, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N111EZ has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 185C, built 1964), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
VARIEZE 1 · N111EZ
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise climb (DB)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED
Wind
170° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000RJS-1
Total time
334 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
700
Age
36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SETTING APRX 10DEG R OF FINAL HEADING.

Investigator remarks

HIT TREES NR PLT'S HOME AT OR NR SUNSET.SUN WAS

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/79 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2868. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2868.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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