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Event IAD79FA029

1979-01-26 BECKLEY, West Virginia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7671Q Cessna 310Q Serious

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

CESSNA 310Q · N7671Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

RALEIGH COUNTY

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310Q0450

Total time

672 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,270

Age

48

Investigator remarks

RATED PLT IN RIGHT SEAT.

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/74 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE 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 0342. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0342.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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