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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67F0240

1966-09-29 HONDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8220W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-32R-301T

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800516

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB3AB6

Registrant of record

SB FARMS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8220W 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 · N8220W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

876 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

C3 (C3)

Total hours

1,500

Age

477

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/L/A L
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND

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 2786. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2786.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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