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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FRA05

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

Registry · N1140Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-161

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770225

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A03D76

Registrant of record

LUKEN HENRY G III

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1140Q 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 · N1140Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PEARLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 12 kt

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7716086

Total time

735 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

148

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UCKHOLE.

Investigator remarks

METAL TRASH CONTAINER.PLT THOUGHT HE RAN OVER CH

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BE J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES UNMARKED OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3289. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3289.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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