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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FQG35

1980-08-02 DUMAS, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8561L Piper PA-25 Fatal

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-25 · N8561L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DJ

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

DUMAS

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-4983

Total time

1,016 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

40,000

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED.MDFYD W METAL WING IAW STC-SA501SW & REV NO 4.

Investigator remarks

L WING SPAR FAILED WHERE LWR FLANGE WAS MISDRILL

Cause factors

68/A/J6 A
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/AA A
AIRFRAME SPARS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 3345. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3345.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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