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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD79FA024

1978-12-19 GREENSBORO, North Carolina, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N18790 Beech B-19 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

BEECH B-19 · N18790

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

GREENSBORO REGION

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

050° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000MB-851

Total time

757 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,670

Age

30

Investigator remarks

LESS THAN 1MIN BEHIND LNDG 727.APP PATH LOW.

Cause factors

64/A/27 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/1 A
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1
88/J/91 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING Joint cause

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 4195. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4195.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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