NTSB CAROL · Event
Event FTW80DRD41
Aircraft involved
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-31 · N27896
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C0
Operator type
Business
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
160° / 10 kt
Temp
92° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
0031-7952034
Total time
1,109 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
3,315
Age
43
Investigator remarks
COLLIDED WITH DRIFTWOOD
Cause factors
- 64/A/35 A PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 83/J/K J TERRAIN SANDY 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 0728.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_0728.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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