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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK78DVG63

1978-07-21 REDDING, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N44308

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-235

Year of manufacture

1974 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740717

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5583B

Registrant of record

HANSON GARRETT G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N44308 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 · N44308

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

REDDING MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7410093

Total time

1,596 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

22

Age

35

Cause factors

64/A/49 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE 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 1471. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1471.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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