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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FEA30

1972-02-27 KOKOMO, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1325P Piper PA-23 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-23 · N1325P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HOWARD COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 11 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000023-368

Total time

2,349 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

610

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

B.BLO VMC,PWR NOT RDCD ON GOOD ENG. CRASH LNDD.

Investigator remarks

ACFT STOPPED IN A DITCH.WATER IN FUEL PUMP & CAR

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
64/B/21 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS
88/B/07 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
64/B/81 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF

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 1400. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1400.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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