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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FKJ09

1981-01-22 BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1435H Piper PA-32R 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-32R · N1435H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BIRMINGHAM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

045° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

032R-7780159

Total time

1,095 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

637

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

C.

Investigator remarks

DID NOT PERFORM LAST STEP OF EMERG GEAR EXTN PRO

Cause factors

64/A/20 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/07 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/J/AC J
SYSTEMS GENERATORS/ALTERNATORS Joint cause
75/J/AI J
SYSTEMS REGULATOR Joint cause
88/J/95 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Joint cause
88/J/33 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE Joint cause
88/J/32 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE Joint cause

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 0309. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0309.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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