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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77DVG03

1976-10-11 CHICO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N15666

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-235

Year of manufacture

1972 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19721122

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0E3C2

Registrant of record

MILLER MICHELLE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N15666 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 · N15666

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

CHICO RANCHERO

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

59° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

2,550 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,056

Age

30

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3229. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3229.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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