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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DQA37

1980-07-19 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N82946

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-150

Year of manufacture

1977 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19771228

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB554D

Registrant of record

CLASS A COACHES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N82946 Piper PA-18 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-18 · N82946

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ROSWELL INDUS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

155° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0018-7809030

Total time

374 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

707

Age

52

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 1271. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1271.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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