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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEI38

1975-03-16 CLEVELAND, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5778P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1959 · 16 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590319

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A76BE8

Registrant of record

HUNTON HUGH R II

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5778P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N5778P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

CLEVELAND HOPKINS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000024-857

Total time

1,406 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,380

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

27.

Investigator remarks

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DUE VORTEX TURBULENCE FROM B-7

Cause factors

84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause
70/B/D2 B
AIRFRAME AILERON SURFACES,ATTACHMENTS
88/B/BD B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BUCKLED
88/L/61 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CONGESTED TRAFFIC-PATTERN

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 0793. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0793.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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