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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FQA10

1980-12-15 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6777B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18A 150

Year of manufacture

1956 · 24 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070202

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8F908

Registrant of record

JIM FRANKLIN AVIATION SERVICE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6777B Piper PA-18A 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-18A · N6777B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

360° / 4 kt

Temp

63° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-5011

Total time

2,756 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

22

Age

17

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y.

Investigator remarks

L MAIN GEAR STRUCK CHUCK-HOLE DRG LNDG ON ROADWA

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3343. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3343.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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