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FTW80DPD35

1980-06-21 · BANGS, Texas, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER J-2 · N16669
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
PRIVATE
Kind of flying
B1

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
045° / 1 kt
Temp
100° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000684
Total time
866 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
908
Age
40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

319,GROUNDED BY SLIPPED SHIELD,P/N 10-16507.

Investigator remarks

PRIMARY LEAD OF MAG,BENDIX-SCINTILLA SF4L S/N 10

Cause factors

  • 74/C/BA C
    POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
  • 88/C/BX C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS GROUNDED Cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0763. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0763.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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