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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC82DCD04

1981-12-04 IOWA FALLS, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N43098

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1974 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740418

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A526D2

Registrant of record

FOREST CITY AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N43098 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 · N43098

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

IOWA FALLS MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

325° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7405175

Total time

1,735 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

113

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FM RWY.HIT SNWBNK BTN RWY LGTS & CLRD AREA ON RWY.

Investigator remarks

ALTNR FAILED IN FLT,LOST BATTERY PWR APRX 200FT

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/13 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/J/AC J
SYSTEMS GENERATORS/ALTERNATORS Joint cause
88/J/33 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE Joint cause
80/J/BD J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Joint cause

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 3123. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3123.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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