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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD80IA015

1979-12-06 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3077C Beech K35 None

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 K35 · N3077C

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

NATIONAL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-5742

Total time

2,657 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,504

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FLICTING INSTRUCTIONS TO DELTA.

Investigator remarks

N3077C CLRD BEHIND DELTA B727.GND CTL ISSUED CON

Cause factors

68/A/G5 A
PERSONNEL ISSUED IMPROPER OR CONFLICTING INSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/2 A
MISCELLANEOUS PROP/JET/ROTOR BLAST 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 5 0036. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0036.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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