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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW82FPM05

1981-11-18 TULSA, Oklahoma, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8307Z Piper PA-28 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-28 · N8307Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

HARVEY YOUNG

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

290° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-8116101

Total time

271 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

163

Age

38

Investigator remarks

DARK NGT.EDGE LGTS ON WEST SIDE OF RWY ONLY.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 2649. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2649.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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