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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FA064

1978-06-19 WINDSOR LOCKS, Connecticut, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10VT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T

Year of manufacture

2023

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550-K (315 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20230930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00448

Registrant of record

DALTON AERO LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BEECH 18 · N10VT

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

BRADLEY INTL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000CA99

Total time

12,509 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,496

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BLADE FAILED.

Investigator remarks

NR2 BEARING NR1 ENG FAILED.ENG NR2 POWER TURBINE

Cause factors

  • 74/C/MI C
    POWERPLANT BEARING,ROTOR SHAFT Cause
  • 88/C/80 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM Cause
  • 88/C/CI C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause
  • 74/C/PH C
    POWERPLANT BLADE,TURBINE WHEEL Cause
  • 88/C/36 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2328. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2328.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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