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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD77JKM21

1977-05-08 GREENSBORO, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N56313

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28R-200

Year of manufacture

1973 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730731

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A734A6

Registrant of record

MARKEL JOHN E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N56313 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 · N56313

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

S.E.GREENSBORO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000007335407

Total time

1,580 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

190

Age

50

Investigator remarks

DMGD RUDDER ON LDG.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/B/AH B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE

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 1003. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1003.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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