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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FRG56

1981-07-27 HONDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N215EC 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 · N215EC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HONDO MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000231178

Total time

1,630 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,430

Age

45

Investigator remarks

PLT REPORTED WIND SHEAR.R WING DMGD.

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint cause
82/J/I J
WEATHER WIND SHEAR Joint 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 0186. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0186.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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