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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70DPG06

1970-03-09 CHERRY VALLEY, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4409Y Piper PA-25 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-25 · N4409Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

FARM STRIP

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-4022

Total time

1,070 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,071

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IP AND X-WIND.

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 20K. UNSUITABLE WITH CONDITION OF STR

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
80/L/BL L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING

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 1167. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1167.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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