NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC80FA018
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
LOCKHEED L-188 · N290F
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Airport
HANCOCK INTL
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000001133
Total time
34,794 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
6,226
Age
33
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
FT,DAMAGING ENGS.
Investigator remarks
FORWARD CARGO DOOR SEPD.CARGO SHIFTED,EXITTED AC
Cause factors
- 70/A/BF A AIRFRAME DOORS,DOOR FRAMES Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/36 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/35 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXPLOSIVE DECOMPRESSION Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/49 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause
- 88/J/60 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARGO SHIFTED 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
1 0008.
Source file
NTSB_1980_1_0008.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
Beyond the agency record
Search this event elsewhere.
Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.
Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.
Official agency record + docket.
Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.
Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).
Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.
Gold-standard aviation incident blog.
Aviation industry news search.
GA pilot forum — informed but rumor-prone.
GA pilot subreddit search.
Tail-number page — flight history (free tier limited).
AOPA Air Safety Institute search.
Mainstream press coverage. Recent events only.
Privacy-preserving news search.
External links open in a new tab. We don't ingest their content; we deep-link search queries.