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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78DKM14

1978-06-26 GREENSBORO, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1404T 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 · N1404T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

GREENSBORO RGNL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

140° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7205294

Total time

2,056 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

587

Age

37

Investigator remarks

RADAR REFLECTOR

Cause factors

65/C/48 C
COPILOT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 1713. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1713.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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