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FTW80FPA19

1980-09-19 · ADDISON, Texas, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N24TV has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BELL 206B, built 1992), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
AERO COMDR 680F · N24TV
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D2
Operator type
D
Airport
ADDISON
Kind of flying
B3

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
000001135-76
Total time
2,475 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
26,755
Age
63

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R ENG CONTAMINATED W OIL.OTR MAGS CKD OK.

Investigator remarks

PLT RPRTD LOSS OF PWR ON 1 OR BOTH ENGS.L MAG ON

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 74/L/BA L
    POWERPLANT MAGNETOS
  • 84/L/G L
    MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS
  • 88/L/83 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL CONTAMINATION

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3553. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3553.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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