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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72DPD47

1972-06-14 RANGER, Texas, United States Unknown 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8372Y Piper PA-30 Unknown

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-30 · N8372Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PORTER RANCH

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000003011526

Total time

1,135 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,617

Age

39

Investigator remarks

HIT TREE AT EDGE OF PVT STRIP.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/35 J
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Joint cause
80/J/BY J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint 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 2222. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2222.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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