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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FA033

1981-03-29 JAMAICA, New York, United States None 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

LOCKHEED 1011 · N334EA

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Airport

JF KENNEDY INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TAXIED APRX 6MI TO & FM END OF RWY BFR TKOF.

Investigator remarks

NR 1 TIRE FAILED WHEN NR 2 TIRE LOST INFLATION.

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CF A
    AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4 0009. Source file NTSB_1981_4_0009.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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