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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FA092

1980-09-25 KEENE, New Hampshire, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7664N Beech D-55 Serious

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 D-55 · N7664N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

DILLANT HOPKINS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000007E625

Total time

1,350 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,000

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN TKOF ROLL W/O STOPPING.PLACARD PROHIBITED THIS.

Investigator remarks

ACFT OBSVD TO TAXI OUT,TURN APPROX 110DEGS,& BEG

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
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 2852. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2852.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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