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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FA062

1981-06-22 OXFORD, Connecticut, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N86BW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEARHAWK AIRCRAFT INC BEARHAWK FOUR

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABCCAC

Registrant of record

WILLAFORD ROBERT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N86BW Aerostar 601P Fatal

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

AEROSTAR 601P · N86BW

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WATERBURY-OXFORD

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

260° / 20 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

61P-0468-185

Total time

850 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

8,500

Age

37

Investigator remarks

CRASHED IN DESCENDING RIGHT TURN.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

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 3641. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3641.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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