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NYC80FA069

1980-08-12 · TEWKSBURY, Massachusetts, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N2ST has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (FRANKLIN RICHARD E (RICK) FRANKLIN RV-6, built 2005), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CESSNA 401B · N2ST
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
Marginal VMC
Phase of flight
ED
Operator type
E
Airport
TEW-MAC
Kind of flying
CI

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000401B0008
Total time
1,302 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,650
Age
33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

224DEG.HIT RADIO TWR.

Investigator remarks

244DEG TRACK INBOUND FRM VOR,PROCEDURE CALLS FOR

Cause factors

  • 64/A/26 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/29 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2731. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2731.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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