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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0109

1968-07-31 LACONIA, New Hampshire, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9901W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670707

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADD533

Registrant of record

WILLIAMS AIR POWER INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9901W 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 · N9901W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

LACONIA

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 16 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

551 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

56

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WIND WAS AVAILABLE.

Investigator remarks

LEFT X-WIND 16K GUSTING TO 20K. RNWY ALMOST INTO

Cause factors

82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
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 2633. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2633.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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