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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL82FIG01

1981-10-03 BALTIMORE, Maryland, United States Fatal 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

BUCKER JUNG 1.131 · N64759

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

320° / 15 kt

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000E.3B-553

Total time

1,022 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

232

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NT.INSPN OF PROP HUB REVEALED REAR CONE NOT INSTLD

Investigator remarks

CRANKSHAFT FAILED,PROP SEPD,CG MVD AFT UNKN AMOU

Cause factors

  • 68/C/D6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
  • 74/C/FB C
    POWERPLANT HUBS Cause
  • 88/C/29 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause
  • 74/C/AB C
    POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause
  • 88/C/36 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
  • 88/L/49 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 3089. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3089.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.