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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN71DQA06

1970-08-06 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1122A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1968 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19681018

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A03640

Registrant of record

COX ABRAHAM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1122A Piper PA-18 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-18 · N1122A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001090-21

Total time

2,250 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,020

Age

35

Investigator remarks

SURVEYING RANCH,HIT HILL WATCHING CATTLE.

Cause factors

64/A/08 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT 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 3355. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3355.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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