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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DCA80AA022

1980-07-25 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5MS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

YAKOVLEV YAK-55M

Year of manufacture

1992

Engine

VEDENEYEV M14P (350 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080104

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63662

Registrant of record

KRAUSE JASON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5MS Piper PA-31 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

PIPER PA-31 · N5MS

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

PHILADELPHIA INTL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0031-7405138

Total time

5,766 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

3,670

Age

34

Investigator remarks

LOW FLAT VISUAL APPROACH 52SEC BEHIND B727.

Cause factors

84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause
64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. 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 3484. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3484.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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