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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD77FKW09

1976-11-19 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4799F Piper PA-28 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-28 · N4799F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7725030

Total time

108 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,600

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FT HIT A SPEED BUMP IN PAVEMENT.

Investigator remarks

LANDING ON ROAD AT SHOPPING CTR -DEMO EXHIBIT.AC

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
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 3403. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3403.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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