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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81DKJ11

1981-02-15 ALABASTER, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6715C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 757-232

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

P & W PW2037

Seats / Engines

178 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20010213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8E279

Registrant of record

DELTA AIR LINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6715C Piper PA-18 None

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-18 · N6715C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

J

Airport

SHELBY COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

090° / 8 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000018-561

Total time

6,502 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

377

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DOWN.GUST TO 10KTS.

Investigator remarks

BOUNCED LDG,GUST TURNED ACFT,DMG ON SECOND TOUCH

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/28 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0262. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0262.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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