NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC67A0143
Registry · N129GP
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CIRRUS DESIGN SR22
Year of manufacture
2005
TCDS
A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
4 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
20050323
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A075C5
Registrant of record
PAFFORD HOLDINGS LLC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
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
BEECH 65-A90 · N129GP
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
Marginal VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Business
Airport
TRI-CITIES
Kind of flying
B3
Weather at impact
Sky
OBSCURATION
Temp
41° F
Aircraft history
Total time
47 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
GA (GA)
Total hours
13,389
Age
51
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ARPT.NO AUTHORIZED INST APPROACH TO THE ARPT.
Investigator remarks
ACFT WAS BEING RADAR VECTORED TO OVER TRI-CITIES
Cause factors
- 64/A/26 A PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
- 82/J/B J WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
- 82/J/C J WEATHER FOG 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
2 0183.
Source file
NTSB_1967_2_0183.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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