NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW80AA064
Registry · N25TA
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA 340A
Year of manufacture
1982
Engine
CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
6 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
20000818
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A256CF
Registrant of record
JMS PROPERTIES INC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
LEAR JET 25B · N25TA
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
DD
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Wind
020° / 20 kt
Temp
41° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000025-196
Total time
3,704 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
GA (GA)
Total hours
7,800
Age
41
Cause factors
- 84/A/I A MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/49 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 3291.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_3291.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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