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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0515

1966-01-06 FRANKLIN, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7073Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROBINSON HELICOPTER R22 BETA

Year of manufacture

2014

TCDS

H10WE · ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO

Engine

LYCOMING O-360-J2A (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20140725

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A97167

Registrant of record

SILVERHAWK AVIATION ACADEMY LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7073Y Piper PA-30 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-30 · N7073Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FRANKLIN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

290° / 9 kt

Temp

28° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,436 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

19,576

Age

42

Investigator remarks

NIGHT OPERATION

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0021. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0021.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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