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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FQG43

1979-06-11 SEMINOLE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N707ED

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RANS S-7

Year of manufacture

1995

Engine

ROTAX 912UL SERIES (80 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20160303

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A96EF7

Registrant of record

RAMSEY MARC J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N707ED Beech 65-88 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 65-88 · N707ED

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000LP16

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

20,175

Age

53

Investigator remarks

SINGLE ENGINE FERRY(TO REPAIR OTHER ENG).

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
88/L/51 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE
75/K/GA K
SYSTEMS POWERPLANT Joint factor

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 1684. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1684.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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