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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN73FTM15

1973-01-14 PROVO, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3929P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC P2 ZIP

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A48DD8

Registrant of record

ZIPLINE INTERNATIONAL INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3929P 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 · N3929P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

PROVO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

22-3602

Total time

2,325 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

102

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RSED.

Investigator remarks

ENCOUNTERED GND FOG DRG APCH.NOT PA-22 SOLO ENDO

Cause factors

64/C/04 C
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG

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 0172. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0172.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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