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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FNA18

1981-07-12 N KINGSTOWN, Rhode Island, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N29SL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22T

Year of manufacture

2022

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550-K (315 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20220825

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2F4BC

Registrant of record

SKY ACCESS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N29SL RAND KR-2 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

RAND KR-2 · N29SL

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

QUONSET STATE

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Temp

84° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000056FL

Total time

10 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

51

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 2003. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2003.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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