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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI82FEK03

1981-12-16 COLUMBUS, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N28906

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1979 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O-360-A4M (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790406

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2F1E1

Registrant of record

BOLDFLIGHT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N28906 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 · N28906

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

OHIO STATE UNIV

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7990428

Total time

1,573 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

47

Age

31

Investigator remarks

CESSNA 182,N759DC RCVD MINOR DMG OF ENG COWL.

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3107. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3107.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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