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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW72FRJ05

1971-08-22 MANGHAM, Louisiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7573Z Piper PA-25 Fatal

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-25 · N7573Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-3659

Total time

2,716 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,000

Age

36

Investigator remarks

NO WITNESSES TO ACCDT. NO ENG MALFUNCTION FOUND.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 1779. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1779.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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