NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI81FEC07
Registry · N5421F
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA 421C
Year of manufacture
1979 · 1 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)
Seats / Engines
8 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
19951115
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A6E1DB
Registrant of record
ALVEY CHAD R
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
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-32R · N5421F
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
D
Airport
LARSEN
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
300° / 8 kt
Aircraft history
Serial number
032R-7780005
Total time
1,289 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
353
Age
21
Cause factors
- 64/C/80 C PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
- 64/C/46 C PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
- 64/B/82 B PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
- 80/K/BC K AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY Joint factor
- 82/L/H L WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
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 3442.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_3442.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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