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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FQG47

1981-08-08 BROWNFIELD, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7736Z Piper PA-25 Serious

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 · N7736Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

200° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-3914

Total time

3,044 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

415

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OTR ACFT.

Investigator remarks

TWO ACFT SPRAYING SAME FLD.ENCTRD WAKE TURBC FM

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 2631. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2631.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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