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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FKW24

1981-08-22 HIXSON, Tennessee, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3815 Bensen B8 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

BENSEN B8 · N3815

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

DALLAS BAY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000804VDP

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

68

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ATION.PLT TURNED DNWIND WITHOUT POWER.

Investigator remarks

NR 1 CYLINDER PARTIALLY SEIZED,EVIDENCE OF DETON

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/CI C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause
74/C/KE C
POWERPLANT DETONATION Cause
64/B/18 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR R.P.M.

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 2112. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2112.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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