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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79DEX17

1979-03-18 FRANKLIN, Indiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N276C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-32R-301T

Year of manufacture

2002

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20021205

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2BCF8

Registrant of record

D&D AIRPARK LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

SPARROWHAWK D6 · N276C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CANARY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000027

Total time

15 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,115

Age

50

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 0215. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0215.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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