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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FTC21

1980-07-05 ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5331H Piper PA-16 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-16 · N5331H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ROCK SPRINGS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 9 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000016137

Total time

1,900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,400

Age

59

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ELEV AFTR TAILWHEEL TOUCHED DOWN.

Investigator remarks

WHEEL LDG.PLT MAINTAINED FORWARD STICK-NOSEDOWN

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 2551. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2551.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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