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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FA019

1980-01-19 BOGOTA, New Jersey, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1946W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SPORT PERFORMANCE AVIATION LLC PANTHER LS

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

ULPOWER UL350IS (130 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190327

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A17A46

Registrant of record

SHALLENBERGER ROBERT P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1946W Beech B19 Fatal

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 B19 · N1946W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TETERBORO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

330° / 20 kt

Temp

46° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000MB-604

Total time

3,126 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

96

Age

31

Investigator remarks

MIX CONTROL FOUND IN CLOSED POSITION.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
82/L/K L
WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR
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 1579. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1579.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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