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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN71FQA32

1970-12-16 TAOS, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7687P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N7687P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

KACHINA

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-2896

Total time

1,760 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,400

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IRE RESULTED FRM ELEC SHORT CAUSED BY IMPACT.

Investigator remarks

NR4 ROD BEARING FAILED.HIT ROCK,GEAR COLLAPSED.F

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 4577. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4577.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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