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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL80FKJ13

1980-06-21 ALABASTER, Alabama, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N555JG

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-31-325

Year of manufacture

1979 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19791228

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A712CD

Registrant of record

LEIA AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N555JG Pitts S-2S Minor

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

PITTS S-2S · N555JG

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

SHELBY COUNTY

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001008

Total time

86 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,458

Age

39

Cause factors

64/A/53 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2041. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2041.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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