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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72AD009

1971-09-06 ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8736C Piper PA-22 Fatal

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 · N8736C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-1390

Total time

3,299 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

11

Age

17

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROM L WING IN FLT.

Investigator remarks

26HRS SINCE ANNUAL INSPECTION,FABRIC SEPARATED F

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
70/C/AE C
AIRFRAME SKIN AND ATTACHMENTS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 4285. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4285.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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