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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80DA032

1980-04-24 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N166H Beech 18S 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 18S · N166H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

CEDAR RAPIDS MUNI

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

030° / 15 kt

Temp

38° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000BA253

Total time

11,338 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

2,590

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING ROSE ABRUPTLY,R WING HIT RWY.WND GSTG 25KTS.

Investigator remarks

ICE FELL OFF WING DRG LNDG.JUST AFTER TCHDWN,L W

Cause factors

64/A/19 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO USE OR INCORRECTLY USED MISC.EQUIPMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/74 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 1183. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1183.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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