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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FLG02

1980-10-17 COLUMBIA, South Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1167Z AERO COMDR 680FLP 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

AERO COMDR 680FLP · N1167Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

COLUMBIA METRO

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001499-U6

Total time

4,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,150

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NK,BOTH ENGS LOST PWR.BOTH AUX TNKS NR EMPTY.

Investigator remarks

DRG TURN TO FINAL,SWITCHED FM AUX TO MAIN FUEL T

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/48 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES 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 3048. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3048.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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