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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0475

1966-01-11 FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7832W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1964 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640917

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA9E5E

Registrant of record

RANKIN KEVIN J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7832W 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 · N7832W

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

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Total time

509 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,616

Age

29

Investigator remarks

ONE PROPELLER BLADE FAILED

Cause factors

74/A/FA A
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/49 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0084. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0084.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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