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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN77FQA33

1977-05-07 GALLUP, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N40949 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 · N40949

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

SENATOR CLARKE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

170° / 15 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0034-7450092

Total time

901 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,490

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E 130-170 DEGREE WITH GUSTS TO 20 KTS.

Investigator remarks

ELT SIGNAL HEARD 10 MIN AFTER ACCD.WINDS VARIABL

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
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 0717. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0717.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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