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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DPJ04

1979-02-09 FREDERICK, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4376D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN OV-1C

Engine

LYCOMING T-53 SER (1150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20010820

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5404D

Registrant of record

PLANES OF FAME AIR MUSEUM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4376D Beech E50 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

BEECH E50 · N4376D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

D

Airport

FREDERICK MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000EH-22

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Investigator remarks

ACFT FOUND ON RWY WITH GEAR MISSING.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 0035. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0035.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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