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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81DEC19

1981-03-28 DETROIT, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8GC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SF50

Year of manufacture

2025

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ33-5A

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250529

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AADDC4

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8GC Piper PA-34 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-34 · N8GC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DETROIT CITY

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

0034-7250064

Total time

2,135 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,100

Age

39

Investigator remarks

RAMP AREA REPAIRED TWO WEEKS PRIOR W ASPHALT.

Cause factors

68/C/H0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE-AIRPORT FACILITIES Cause
80/C/BL C
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0568. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0568.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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