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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74IN080

1974-03-15 TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5197S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1970 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19701130

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6863C

Registrant of record

HAERTLEIN LAUREN L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5197S 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 · N5197S

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

RJ MILLER AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7105048

Total time

365 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

566

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NCE TO KEEP DEER OFF ARPT PROPERTY.

Investigator remarks

DARK NIGHT.WOODED AREA ARND ARPT,NO PERIMETER FE

Cause factors

84/A/3 A
MISCELLANEOUS ANIMAL(S) ON RUNWAY/TAXIWAY/RAMP Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BY J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 5 0005. Source file NTSB_1974_5_0005.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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