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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81FA028

1981-04-15 PORT ORCHARD, Washington, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5976P Piper PA-24 Minor

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-24 · N5976P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

PORT ORCHARD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

200° / 10 kt

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-1069

Total time

3,367 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

EA (EA)

Total hours

567

Age

55

Investigator remarks

CRASHED ON ROAD.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 0401. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0401.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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