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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN82FTC01

1981-10-23 POWELL, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8972C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1976 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760212

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC61F6

Registrant of record

BOSN RICHARD O

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8972C 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 · N8972C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 3 kt

Temp

17° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000287690174

Total time

1,323 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

440

Age

32

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON GRAVEL ROAD,HIT POST.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2945. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2945.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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