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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78FKM25

1978-09-15 SALISBURY, North Carolina, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

NONE Bensen B8 Fatal

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

BENSEN B8 · NONE

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

ROWAN COUNTY

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

220° / 6 kt

Temp

79° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

0

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

O PREVIOUS PLT EXPERIENCE.ACFT NOT CERTIFICATED.

Investigator remarks

WOODEN ROTOR BLADE STRUCK RUDDER IN STEEP TURN.N

Cause factors

84/C/8 C
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 3250. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3250.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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