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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FNC30

1977-05-17 POST MILLS, Vermont, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9781W Piper PA-28 Serious

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 · N9781W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

POST MILLS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-23270

Total time

1,296 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

134

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FT DOWN 2300FT RUNWAY.

Investigator remarks

AIRPORT OPERATOR STATED GO-AROUND ATTEMPTED 1600

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
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1106. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1106.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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