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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEI32

1980-08-02 WADSWORTH, Ohio, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N336RM QUICKIE 1 Minor

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

QUICKIE 1 · N336RM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WADSWORTH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

190° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000023

Total time

102 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,980

Age

64

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NE TYPE ONAN 848M.

Investigator remarks

LOSS OF COMPRESSION BY LEAKING HEAD GASKETS.ENGI

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
88/C/AN C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOW COMPRESSION Cause
64/B/81 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 3449. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3449.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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