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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78FA060

1978-07-16 BROWNFIELD, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N55469 Piper PA-28 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-28 · N55469

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

100° / 6 kt

Temp

97° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7325410

Total time

1,343 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

29

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RMINED.

Investigator remarks

SOURCE OF 30% SATURATION OF CO IN BLOOD NOT DETE

Cause factors

64/A/64 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/69 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING 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 1275. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1275.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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