NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW78FA085
Aircraft involved
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
AERO COMDR 500 · N6244B
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Wind
050° / 7 kt
Temp
73° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000652-13
Total time
4,000 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
310
Age
38
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
1MIN OF FLT HEADING CHANGED THRU 630DEG.
Investigator remarks
DARK NIGHT,VFR FLT NOT RECOMMENDED.DURING LAST 1
Cause factors
- 64/A/40 A PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/03 A PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/66 A PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint 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 2862.
Source file
NTSB_1978_3_2862.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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