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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEG21

1980-09-07 CINCINNATI, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N280AC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C23

Year of manufacture

1979 · 1 years old at event

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790615

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2CDFE

Registrant of record

WHITE SCARF AIRWAYS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N280AC Beech C23 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

BEECH C23 · N280AC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LUNKEN MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

240° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M2197

Total time

418 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

13

Age

28

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING

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 2469. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2469.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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