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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL80F1A06

1980-05-05 FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N43954

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1977 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770818

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A547B1

Registrant of record

GEORGETOWN AIRCRAFT RENTAL INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N43954 Piper PA-28 Serious

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

PIPER PA-28 · N43954

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FRONT ROYAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7415533

Total time

3,064 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

248

Age

28

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 0679. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0679.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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