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Event IAD79FID02

1978-11-05 NORFOLK, Virginia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3363F Beech D45 Minor

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 D45 · N3363F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

L

Airport

NORFOLK INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

010° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000BG-27

Total time

13,209 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

306

Age

50

Investigator remarks

PILOT WAS PRACTICING SOFT FIELD TAKEOFFS.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3255. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3255.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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