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Event IAD71II019

1970-10-28 HOT SPRINGS, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N164P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SWEARINGEN SA-26AT

Year of manufacture

1969 · 1 years old at event

Engine

AIRESEARCH 331 SER 605HP (605 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19700120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A101CF

Registrant of record

NOBLE TED

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N164P NIHON YS-11A 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

NIHON YS-11A · N164P

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Airport

INGALLS

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

170° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,388

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

H.APRX 150-200FT OVR RWY THRESHOLD A/S 120K.

Investigator remarks

ADF APCH-DSCNDD TO MDA,SIGHTED RWY,CONTD LDG APC

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
88/B/DF B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 4 0056. Source file NTSB_1970_4_0056.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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