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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81FA047

1981-07-17 BOISE, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N40036

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-34-200T

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 2 engines

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4AF81

Registrant of record

PAULAY SANDOR F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N40036 Piper PA-34 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-34 · N40036

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

E

Airport

BOISE MUNI

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

030° / 3 kt

Temp

79° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000770369

Total time

4,481 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

3,095

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LLY DUPLICATED WHEN CKD ON JACKS,THEN WORKED OK.

Investigator remarks

GEAR RETRACTED WHEN POPPED CKT BRKR RESET.INITIA

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/AY A
SYSTEMS OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BR A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ERRATIC Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AL J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CIRCUIT BREAKER POPPED Joint 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 5 0049. Source file NTSB_1981_5_0049.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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