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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75FTC09

1974-08-28 RAWLINS, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N427AS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1965 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651216

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A515B1

Registrant of record

OLIVER LELAND E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N427AS 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 · N427AS

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-2936

Total time

1,306 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

168

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HWY AND HIT CAR.NR 2 CYLINDER FAILED.

Investigator remarks

PILOT ATTEMPTED EMERGENCY LANDING ON INTERSTATE

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
64/B/48 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER Joint factor

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 2544. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2544.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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