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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW77FPD17

1977-04-03 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8124P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2003

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030814

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB13BC

Registrant of record

CLEARSKY LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8124P Piper PA-24 Fatal

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-24 · N8124P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

KICKAPOO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

210° / 9 kt

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-3377

Total time

1,700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

235

Age

25

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0864. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0864.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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