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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FRG26

1981-03-13 ALAMO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6053L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GREAT LAKES 2T-1A-2

Year of manufacture

1976 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760422

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7DC9E

Registrant of record

HENSON RANDOLPH C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6053L Great Lakes 2T-1A2 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

GREAT LAKES 2T-1A2 · N6053L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

140° / 7 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000727

Total time

260 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,000

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ETELY CLOSED.

Investigator remarks

AIR INTAKE HOSE AFT OF AIR SCOOP TWISTED & COMPL

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/CJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PINCHED Cause
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 0980. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0980.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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