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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FEP70

1978-09-15 MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N32506

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1974 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19741108

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3835A

Registrant of record

SCHUHLER LOUIS A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N32506 Piper PA-28 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-28 · N32506

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7505066

Total time

1,614 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

80

Age

30

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 4133. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4133.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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