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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA69F0240

1969-04-21 ENUMCLAW, Washington, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4910J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28R-180

Year of manufacture

1968 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680518

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A61630

Registrant of record

GYURE RONALD J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4910J 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 · N4910J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ENUMCLAW

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

493 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

984

Age

32

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/81 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF 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 1029. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1029.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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