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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79DQG10

1978-12-05 LEVELLAND, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5407P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N5407P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

LEVELLAND MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000024-461

Total time

2,345 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

596

Age

47

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 30KTS.

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3291. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3291.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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