Atlas / NTSB / FTW79FA034

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FA034

1978-12-28 OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6818S AERO COMDR 680 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

AERO COMDR 680 · N6818S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

CLARENCE E PAGE

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 18 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00680-324-18

Total time

5,898 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,155

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DROP R ENG.FLAPS,GR DOWN.ACFT UNAIRWORTHY.

Investigator remarks

CONROD FAILED L ENG.PLT AWARE OF 800-1000RPM MAG

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
64/B/11 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO RETRACT LANDING GEAR
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
64/L/01 L
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT
68/L/D6 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION

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 4415. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4415.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.