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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73DRA01

1972-07-02 CROSBY, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2104

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

JABIRU AIRCRAFT PTY LTD CALYPSO

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050205

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1BC66

Registrant of record

MULLER DANIEL R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2104 Pitts S1C 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

PITTS S1C · N2104

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

RAWE STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,000

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENCE.

Investigator remarks

PLT RPRTD NR4 CNCTNG ROD FAILED.HIT CHAIN LINK F

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2212. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2212.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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