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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FEK17

1979-07-06 COLUMBUS, Ohio, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101JE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PILATUS PC-12/45

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

P&W PT6SER TP (500 hp)

Seats / Engines

12 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040716

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00938

Registrant of record

JEVA AIR CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

VARIVIGGEN EDGAR · N101JE

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

PORT COLUMBUS INT

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000219

Total time

6 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

499

Age

36

Investigator remarks

PLT INIT GO AROUND DUE TO LNDG GEAR PROBLEMS

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 64/B/16 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 1398. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1398.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.