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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FKW25

1981-08-25 COLUMBIA, Tennessee, United States None 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

CESSNA 152 · N48005

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HUNTER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015283266

Total time

336 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,472

Age

50

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 80/L/BA L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
  • 88/L/92 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYDROPLANING ON WET RUNWAY
  • 88/K/DH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 2108. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2108.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.