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Event NYC81FA068

1981-06-27 MANAHAWKIN, New Jersey, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9713Q Beech A24R 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

BEECH A24R · N9713Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MANAHAWKIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

050° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MC-69

Total time

1,826 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

700

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PED BFR ACFT DSCNDD.PLT WHO ACTIVATED MIXT UNDTMND

Investigator remarks

MIXT CTL 3/16 IN FM IDLE CUT-OFF PSN.R WING DROP

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 3481. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3481.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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