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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79FQA23

1979-04-06 GALLUP, New Mexico, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5428F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1977 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770309

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6E2D0

Registrant of record

SCHOLD MAURY W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5428F Piper PA-28 Serious

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 · N5428F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7790118

Total time

826 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

91

Age

24

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/19 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INATTENTIVE TO FUEL SUPPLY Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3257. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3257.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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