NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC80FFJ08
Registry · N22KJ
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
JACKSON KENNETH J SKYBOLT
Year of manufacture
1979 · 1 years old at event
Engine
AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19860908
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A1DF92
Registrant of record
MELICHAR CHARLES D
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
JACKSON SKYBLT · N22KJ
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Aircraft history
Serial number
0000000KJJ-1
Total time
73 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
6,189
Age
34
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ON MIDDLE TANK,GRAVITY FED,LEVEL FLT ONLY.
Investigator remarks
AILERON ROLL,ACFT INVERTED,ENG LOST PWR.FUEL SEL
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/K/88 K MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 0873.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_0873.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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