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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA81FYK08

1981-04-30 MEDFORD, Oregon, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7712D Piper PA-22 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-22 · N7712D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

TABLE ROCK STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-5835

Total time

2,568 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

145

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HEN LND ABOUT 1000FT SHORT ON DISPLACED THRESHOLD.

Investigator remarks

REC'D STRIP INFO FROM OTHER PLT. DRAGGED STRIP,T

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/B/35 B
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
80/L/A9 L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER

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 0657. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0657.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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