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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FA029

1979-02-27 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N711TL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-60-700P

Year of manufacture

1984

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19841213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A98178

Registrant of record

BARNE GEORGE H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N711TL Beech E18S Serious

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

BEECH E18S · N711TL

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Airport

INDIANAPOLIS INTL

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000BA-317

Total time

8,667 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,920

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING B-727.

Investigator remarks

ACFT ENCOUNTERED WAKE TURBULENCE BEHIND A DEPART

Cause factors

84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 0854. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0854.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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