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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA67F0017

1967-01-15 HUNTERSVILLE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N23438

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1939 · 28 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570527

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A21A3E

Registrant of record

BRADFORD III PROPERTIES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N23438 Piper J3C-65 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 J3C-65 · N23438

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

CROSS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 3 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,937 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,730

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING.

Investigator remarks

ENGINE IDLE FAILURE DURING SIMULATED FORCED LAND

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0153. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0153.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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