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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DPG34

1980-06-08 CONWAY, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7957 Grumman G-164A 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

GRUMMAN G-164A · N7957

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

315° / 5 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000836

Total time

1,902 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

15,000

Age

48

Investigator remarks

ENG CYL CRACKED.

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/L/DC L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOAD NOT JETTISONED
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 0713. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0713.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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