Atlas / NTSB / FTW79DRA01

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DRA01

1978-10-22 CYPRESS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N84AS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-8

Year of manufacture

2025

Engine

SUPERIOR IO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250320

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB7D91

Registrant of record

NYMAN STEPHEN M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N84AS LET-NP-K L-13 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

LET-NP-K L-13 · N84AS

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

CYPRESS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

012° / 5 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000026653

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

229

Age

32

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 3201. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3201.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.