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Event CHI81FA009

1980-12-05 HAGERSTOWN, Indiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5951F Cessna 210H Fatal

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 210H · N5951F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

HAGERSTOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

48° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000210-58951

Total time

2,641 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,785

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AP WOULD MOVE BYD STOPS DRG INSTLN,CAP NOT FND.

Investigator remarks

OIL COOLER LOOSE,2QTS USED,PREV FLT.OIL FILLER C

Cause factors

74/C/DY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM 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 3246. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3246.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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