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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FA096

1980-07-25 IOLA, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6515V AERO COMDR 680FLP Fatal

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

AERO COMDR 680FLP · N6515V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DY

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

160° / 8 kt

Temp

99° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001599-25

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N ACFT.CG APRX 5 IN BHND AFT LMT.

Investigator remarks

OWNER RPRTD ACFT STOLEN.935LBS MARIJUANA FOUND I

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
88/K/26 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT Joint factor
88/K/76 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G. 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 1619. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1619.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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