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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0214

1967-08-27 WEST MEMPHIS, Arkansas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N872R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA 46-350P

Year of manufacture

1989

TCDS

A25SO · PIPER AIRCRAFT INC

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19890418

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABFF3B

Registrant of record

J&J SURVEYING & LEASING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N872R Beech 35-B33 Minor

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

BEECH 35-B33 · N872R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WEST MEMPHIS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

928 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,150

Age

52

Cause factors

88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause

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 3007. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3007.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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