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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD73AI015

1973-04-27 GREENSBORO, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N80E N. AMERICAN NA-265 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

N. AMERICAN NA-265 · N80E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

GREENSBORO

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

320° / 6 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000306-58

Total time

2,326 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

14,500

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FORWARD THRUST POS.ACFT HIT SOFT DIRT.

Investigator remarks

FAA RQRD ALL OWNERS TO LOCK THRUST REVERSERS IN

Cause factors

88/C/92 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYDROPLANING ON WET RUNWAY Cause
80/C/BA C
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Cause
80/B/BY B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
88/L/DF L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE
74/L/Y5 L
POWERPLANT REVERSER DOORS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0862. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0862.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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