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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FQG30

1970-08-31 BIG SPRING, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6301Y Piper PA-23 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-23 · N6301Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-3553

Total time

790 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

491

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E UNABLE TO CLEAR.LANDED ON OILFIELD ACCESS ROAD.

Investigator remarks

UNABLE TO FEATHER L PROP.PLT RPTD HILLS ON COURS

Cause factors

74/C/FY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 4572. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4572.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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