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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FRJ30

1981-08-21 MONROE, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N42LB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35B

Year of manufacture

1970 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700327

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4FA42

Registrant of record

RIGNEY TIMOTHY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N42LB Piper PA-32R 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-32R · N42LB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

FARMERVILLE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

040° / 11 kt

Temp

86° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00032R787075

Total time

656 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

295

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

A.ACFT BOUNCED,WENT ARND,LNDD,FOAMED RWY,MONROE,LA

Investigator remarks

R MAIN GEAR FAILED,SHORT OF RWY AT FARMERVILLE,L

Cause factors

64/C/45 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/K/27 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED ON FOAMED RUNWAY 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 1961. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1961.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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