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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEK11

1980-06-01 COLUMBUS, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N33TD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F33A

Year of manufacture

1973 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730105

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A39523

Registrant of record

LIGHTNING 35 AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N33TD Enstrom F28A 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

ENSTROM F28A · N33TD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B8

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000073

Total time

635 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,956

Age

28

Cause factors

66/A/23 A
DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
66/A/42 A
DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1123. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1123.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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