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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77DCD04

1976-11-15 ATLANTIC, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8701N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1969 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690206

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABF8DE

Registrant of record

FUELLNER FREDERICK E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8701N 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 · N8701N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ATLANTIC

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25521

Total time

4,068 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

36

Age

41

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
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 3542. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3542.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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