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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD78FA014

1977-11-24 BECKLEY, West Virginia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N801HD Piper PA-31T Fatal

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-31T · N801HD

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

RALEIGH COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

350° / 13 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

031T-7620031

Total time

459 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,500

Age

43

Investigator remarks

STEEL REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL.

Cause factors

64/C/26 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause
64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 4132. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4132.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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