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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FRG02

1980-10-03 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2622T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROBINSON HELICOPTER R22 BETA

Year of manufacture

1991

TCDS

H10WE · ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20200701

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2891B

Registrant of record

STENVERS AARON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2622T Navion H None

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

NAVION H · N2622T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WESTSIDE

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 7 kt

Temp

84° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000004-2520

Total time

1,165 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

246

Age

57

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 2694. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2694.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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