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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DPD35

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

Aircraft involved

N16669 Piper J-2 Serious

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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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