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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL82FKM02

1981-10-11 PINNACLE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4008L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GREAT LAKES 2T-1A-2

Engine

LYCOMING AEIO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4B01C

Registrant of record

BOOTH JAMES L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4008L GR LAKES 2T-1A2 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

GR LAKES 2T-1A2 · N4008L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000824

Total time

409 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,283

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UIPPED FOR 3 MINS INVERTED FLIGHT.

Investigator remarks

POWER LOSS 5-6 SECONDS AFTER ROLLING INVERTED.EQ

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2965. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2965.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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