Event ATL81IA004

1980-10-09 RALIEGH, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N112TA Fairchild F-27 None

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

FAIRCHILD F-27 · N112TA

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000002

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CLEANED W HI PRES SOAP/WTR.SOAP FND IN OTR BRGS.

Investigator remarks

OUTBOARD WHL BRG ON R MAIN GEAR FAILED AFT ENGS

Cause factors

68/A/D2 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPERLY SERVICED AIRCRAFT (GROUND CREW) Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/G A
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CF A
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BV A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FRICTION,EXCESSIVE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 5 0034. Source file NTSB_1980_5_0034.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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