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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN72FQD27

1972-06-02 ANTHONY, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6378R Piper PA-28 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-28 · N6378R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-21552

Total time

3,451 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

879

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON L SIDE OF NARROW ROAD.

Investigator remarks

PRACTICE FORCED LDG. ENG WOULDNT RESPOND. IP LND

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/34 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/L/85 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS

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 1955. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1955.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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