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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FRD01

1979-10-03 OPELOUSAS, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N62267 Piper PA-23 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-23 · N62267

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ST.LANDRY PARISH

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 11 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000023-550

Total time

4,830 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,940

Age

33

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W TREE STUMP & LOG.

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
88/L/48 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 2939. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2939.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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