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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEG20

1980-07-16 CINCINNATI, Ohio, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1841T Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N1841T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

LUNKEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7105116

Total time

1,700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

230

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOUND LOCKED BUT NOT SECURED TO COWLING.

Investigator remarks

PORTION OF COWLING OPENED DURING CLIMB.FASTENERS

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1140. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1140.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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