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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80DRG28

1980-02-23 EAGLE PASS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N38090

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J4E

Year of manufacture

1941 · 39 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570527

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A45EF6

Registrant of record

SANTERRE GARY R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N38090 Piper J4 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 J4 · N38090

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

EAGLE PASS

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

340° / 15 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000004-1543

Total time

1,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

378

Age

37

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 0572. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0572.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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