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NYC81FNA06

1980-11-29 · EAST GREENWICH, Rhode Island, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
SONERAI II · N24JW
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN
Wind
260° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000152
Total time
175 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
330
Age
22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CH ALLOWED BLADES TO MOVE.ONE BLADE SEPD.

Investigator remarks

STEEL HUB CLAMPS NOT GRIPPING BLADE SECURELY WHI

Cause factors

  • 68/C/J6 C
    PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
  • 74/C/FA C
    POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 88/L/49 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3655. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3655.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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