NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW80IA050
Registry · N30AA
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
FREEMAN W B / TARPLEY D A WHITE LIGHTNING
Year of manufacture
1991
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
4 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19920329
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A31CFA
Registrant of record
OCEAN LIGHTHOUSE 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
BEECH 65A90 · N30AA
Damage
Minor
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
C
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D0
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000LJ-274
Total time
5,729 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
3,750
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
D ON THIS & ONE OTHER WINDOW FM ABRASIVE WEAR.
Investigator remarks
FWD CABIN WINDOW ON L SIDE FAILED.SCRATCHES FOUN
Cause factors
- 68/A/D0 A PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 70/A/BH A AIRFRAME WINDSHIELDS,WINDOWS,CANOPIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/95 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/35 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXPLOSIVE DECOMPRESSION 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
5 0003.
Source file
NTSB_1980_5_0003.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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