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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DQG42

1980-09-20 DALHART, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N14SA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT 8KCAB

Year of manufacture

2014

Engine

LYCOMING AEIO-360-H1B (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20140805

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0A1E8

Registrant of record

SIDNEY AVIATION LLC

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

DYKE DELTA JD-2A · N14SA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DALHART MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001122

Total time

157 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,057

Age

66

Cause factors

  • 64/A/25 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/62 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Joint cause
  • 88/J/AQ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND 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 2313. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2313.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.