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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FTM25

1980-06-20 CEDAR CITY, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N47445

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28R-201T

Year of manufacture

1977 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770909

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5D2F8

Registrant of record

PREMIER CAPITAL ENTERPRISES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N47445 Piper PA-28 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-28 · N47445

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

CEDAR CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 20 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000007703379

Total time

861 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

319

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AD.

Investigator remarks

MANEUVERED TO AVOID PWR LN DRG FORCED LNDG ON RO

Cause factors

74/C/AB C
POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
84/K/7 K
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Joint factor
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 1923. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1923.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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