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Event IAD78IA037

1978-01-31 MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8558R Beech B99 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

BEECH B99 · N8558R

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MORGANTOWN MUNI

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

240° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000U158

Total time

8,436 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,038

Age

27

Cause factors

64/C/50 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause
80/L/BP L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RAMP/TAXIWAY
80/L/BQ L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RAMP/TAXIWAY
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 5 0007. Source file NTSB_1978_5_0007.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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