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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FRG66

1980-08-23 AUSTIN, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6691Y 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 · N6691Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TIMS

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 7 kt

Temp

101° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-4014

Total time

5,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,353

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T AGL.

Investigator remarks

PLT RPRTD UN TO CLB AFTER L ENG LOST PWR AT 100F

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2316. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2316.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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