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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD80FLT05

1980-03-25 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 152 · N49867

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

MEMPHIS INTL

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

050° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015281370

Total time

851 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

35

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F ON RWY 3.TKOF ON LAST 1250FT OF RWY 27.

Investigator remarks

STU PLT FAILED TO SET HDG IND,WAS CLEARED TO TKO

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN 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 0543. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0543.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.