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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71DVA50

1971-01-07 MODESTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N95459

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1969 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690529

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD46AC

Registrant of record

FOLSOM JAMES

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N95459 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 · N95459

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

MODESTO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

350° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25970

Total time

943 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

85

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T 100-200FT ABV RWY,LNDD ON OVRRUN.

Investigator remarks

PLT NIGHT EXP 3HRS,ACFT NEAR GWT.ABORTED TKOF AB

Cause factors

64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0397. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0397.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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