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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FNA15

1980-06-23 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N129RM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RUSSELL MADDEN PIETENPOL

Year of manufacture

2018

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85-12 (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20181202

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A076A4

Registrant of record

MADDEN RUSSELL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N129RM Piper PA-23 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-23 · N129RM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NORWOOD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000277405301

Total time

680 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,630

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HEARD.

Investigator remarks

KEYS LEFT IN DOOR,ABORTED WHEN NOISE OF KEYS WAS

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/DH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 3 1994. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1994.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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