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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA68F0057

1967-07-16 FALLSTON, Maryland, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N38118

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3L-65

Year of manufacture

1941 · 26 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-145B SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560504

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4619D

Registrant of record

MULL TRAVIS S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N38118 Piper J3L-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 J3L-65 · N38118

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

FALLSTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

4,281 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

17

Age

25

Investigator remarks

PARTIAL POWER AVAILABLE.

Cause factors

74/A/KA A
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 2383. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2383.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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