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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67D0380

1967-01-17 IOWA FALLS, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6813W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1965 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650622

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A909C4

Registrant of record

ROTOR AND WING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6813W 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 · N6813W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

IOWA FALLS MUNI

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

973 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

522

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

K USED FOR SHORT FIELD TAKEOFF.CLEAR RNWY AVAILABL

Investigator remarks

PARTIALLY CLEARED RUNWAY BLOCKED BY 6 FT SNOWBAN

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0198. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0198.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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