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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FFA25

1980-09-27 KINGSTON, New York, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

OSPREY II · N8020H

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

KINGSTON-ULSTER

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

310° / 10 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000247

Total time

3 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

17,406

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D AT/NR HUB.ENG INSTL BHND PLT,MOUNTS FAILED FWD.

Investigator remarks

3 BLADED WOOD PROP,EXPERIMENTAL USE,BLADES FAILE

Cause factors

  • 74/C/FA C
    POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 3 3398. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3398.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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