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MIA79FKJ58

1979-07-26 · BREWTON, Alabama, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N101WG has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-10, built 2009), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
HEADWIND J.D. · N101WG
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D2
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
180° / 5 kt
Temp
90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000020A635
Total time
122 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,567
Age
23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NG STOPPED IN FLT WHEN IDLED AT 1200RPM.

Investigator remarks

ALUMINUM COUPLER BTN CRANKSHAFT & MAGNETO WORN.E

Cause factors

  • 64/C/01 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
  • 74/C/BA C
    POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
  • 88/C/BQ C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY Cause
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3715. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3715.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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