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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78DQA19

1978-04-18 TAOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N41372

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-151

Year of manufacture

1974 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740131

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4E2AD

Registrant of record

GORHAM RAYMOND A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N41372 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 · N41372

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

TAOS MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-8209

Total time

4,480 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,955

Age

35

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/31 C
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause
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 0679. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0679.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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