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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD79FIG09

1979-07-15 BALTIMORE, Maryland, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N555WP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 414A

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19780630

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A71400

Registrant of record

SHERRY-AIRE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N555WP Piper PA-23 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-23 · N555WP

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BALTIMORE-WASH.

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

060° / 6 kt

Temp

87° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-4027

Total time

1,474 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

67

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G PWR,TURNED BACK TO ARPT,LOST ALT,CRASHED SHORT.

Investigator remarks

PWR LOSS,R YAW,NOSED UP AFTER TKOF.PLT RDCD R EN

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND 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 3651. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3651.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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