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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DPG59

1980-08-12 CHERRY VALLEY, Arkansas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4011Y Snow S2R Minor

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

SNOW S2R · N4011Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

92° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000002539R

Total time

606 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,000

Age

33

Cause factors

74/C/BC C
POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Cause
88/C/AR C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON DEPOSITS Cause
88/K/24 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD Joint factor
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1887. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1887.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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