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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81DA069

1981-06-30 PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1127J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1996

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19960830

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A036F7

Registrant of record

G36 HOLDINGS LLC

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

BRITISH AC 1-11 · N1127J

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D2

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

330° / 8 kt

Temp

86° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00VH-BAC-180

Total time

31,346 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

20,190

Age

50

Cause factors

  • 82/A/L A
    WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/R0 A
    PERSONNEL FLIGHT ATTENDANT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/12 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/CZ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT SIGN ON Joint 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 1 0008. Source file NTSB_1981_1_0008.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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