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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FPD26

1970-11-14 DENTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N95353

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CAMERON BALLOONS US N-77

Year of manufacture

1989

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19890929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD42EF

Registrant of record

FINCH CHARLES R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N95353 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 · N95353

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DENTON

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

340° / 15 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25897

Total time

1,486 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,650

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROLLED ARPT. CABIN LT TURNED ON SHORTLY BFOR CRASH

Investigator remarks

IP SIMULATED RADAR VECTOR AND GCA APCH TO UNCONT

Cause factors

64/A/30 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 4398. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4398.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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