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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD80FA017

1979-12-16 LEXINGTON, Kentucky, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N154F Beech A65 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 A65 · N154F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Airport

BLUEGRASS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

330° / 16 kt

Temp

32° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000LC-214

Total time

2,698 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,300

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

'S MAN STATED-APPLY FULL ALT AIR BFR ICING CONDS.

Investigator remarks

DE-ICING EQUIP NOT INSTLD ON WNG-EMPENNAGE.OWNER

Cause factors

64/C/40 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/CY C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE INDUCTION Cause
64/B/01 B
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT
88/B/74 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
82/K/F K
WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. 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 3 3493. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3493.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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