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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68D0336

1967-10-23 BUFFALO, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N82455

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-32-301

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800724

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB42DC

Registrant of record

GMT ENTERPRISES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N82455 Aeronca 7AC 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

AERONCA 7AC · N82455

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BUFFALO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

135° / 14 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,909 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

210

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

STING TO 20 KNOTS.

Investigator remarks

LEFT QUARTERING HEAD WIND 45 DEGREES 14 KNOTS GU

Cause factors

64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
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 4024. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4024.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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