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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73FEC10

1972-09-30 SEBEWAING, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3338Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-160

Year of manufacture

1960 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600115

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3A47C

Registrant of record

KEIL LAWRENCE L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3338Z Piper PA-22 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-22 · N3338Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SEBEWAING

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-7278

Total time

1,610 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

316

Age

39

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/79 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE 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 3 2545. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2545.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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