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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FNA05

1980-12-11 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N16421 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 · N16421

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

NORWOOD MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7325269

Total time

2,856 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,070

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MINOR DAMAGE,NOZZLE PWR JET ASSY.

Investigator remarks

N1066,N98285 SUSBSTANTIAL. N4615R,N5922E,N500HF,

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/46 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WRONG PART Cause
88/C/90 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING 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 3654. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3654.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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