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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72DTK09

1971-10-07 PIERRE, South Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7843P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N7843P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PIERRE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

310° / 18 kt

Temp

63° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000243066

Total time

1,983 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,500

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

-WIND,RWY CONSTRUCT.PLT DIDNT SEE BARRIER,HIT LIP.

Investigator remarks

FSS STA ADV PLT HE COULD LND ON TAXIWAY DUE HI X

Cause factors

64/C/15 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
80/L/BY L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
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 2298. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2298.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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