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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL82FA009

1981-10-19 HAZARD, Kentucky, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2ED

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STOY JAMES R STOLP ACRODUSTER TOO

Year of manufacture

1991

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER A&C (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19911001

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18DB9

Registrant of record

STUCKEY ROGER G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2ED Helio H-295 Fatal

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

HELIO H-295 · N2ED

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001447

Total time

2,921 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,000

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERGCY A/D 81-24-05 ISSUED AFT ACCD.

Investigator remarks

WING CARRY THROUGH ASSY TENSION MEMBER FAILED.EM

Cause factors

68/A/J2 A
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/AC A
AIRFRAME WING ATTACHMENT FITTINGS,BOLTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause
70/J/AG J
AIRFRAME WINGTIPS Joint cause

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 3485. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3485.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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