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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FGM10

1975-10-08 FREEPORT, Pennsylvania, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6097W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1964 · 11 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640519

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7EC10

Registrant of record

WALLETTE ROBERT MICHAEL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6097W Piper PA-28 Minor

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 · N6097W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

MCVILLE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

100° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000020001

Total time

1,627 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

38

Age

54

Investigator remarks

HIT RWY MARKER,THEN TREES.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
68/L/C1 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE TRAINING OF STUDENT
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 2947. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2947.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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