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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FRG58

1980-07-22 AUSTIN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9523T Piper PA-38 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-38 · N9523T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TIMS AIRPARK

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

040° / 14 kt

Temp

99° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000078A0124

Total time

980 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

372

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND MAJOR DAMAGE TO PARKED AUTO.WND GUSTS TO 25KTS.

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH C172,N738BM,CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE A

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1292. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1292.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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