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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEI11

1980-02-29 EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2685S Cessna T337D 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

CESSNA T337D · N2685S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

COLUMBIANA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 22 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000337-0985

Total time

3,167 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

770

Age

34

Investigator remarks

RETRACTED FLAPS WHILE SINKING ON FINAL.

Cause factors

64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
64/C/71 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS 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 0386. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0386.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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