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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76DVK14

1976-08-30 GILA BEND, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N32030

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-151

Year of manufacture

1974 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740925

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3712A

Registrant of record

ROBERT STARR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N32030 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 · N32030

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

GILA BEND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

115° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7515048

Total time

948 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

51

Age

40

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/L/U L
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 2720. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2720.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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