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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEM25

1981-07-04 MECOSTA, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9515K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-151

Year of manufacture

1976 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760402

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD3B6F

Registrant of record

BOYD MATTHEW

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9515K 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 · N9515K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MECOSTA MORTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

350° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000287615209

Total time

3,102 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

180

Age

56

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W SMALL PLANTS & SOFT SOIL.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/DH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint cause
88/J/AP J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RUNWAY CLOSED Joint 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 1433. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1433.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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