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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUJ88

1978-07-28 MARICOPA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9182T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-25-235

Year of manufacture

1978 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19881104

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACB713

Registrant of record

SHORTRIDGE RANDALL R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9182T Piper PA-25 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-25 · N9182T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ESTRELLA SAILPORT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0025-7856026

Total time

162 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,400

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G IN DESERT,HIT BRUSH.

Investigator remarks

AIR DUCT FROM AIR FILTER TO CARBURETOR.FORCED LD

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/BJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS COLLAPSED Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2355. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2355.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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