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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FEA40

1972-05-23 LAFAYETTE, Indiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N286P Piper PA-28 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-28 · N286P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

PURDUE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-24809

Total time

2,732 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

78

Age

21

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1862. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1862.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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