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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73DRG06

1972-08-01 PFLUGERVILLE, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N847SP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-400

Year of manufacture

1964 · 8 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-720 (400 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640818

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB9B78

Registrant of record

ROTHSCHILD JOEL S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N847SP Piper PA-24 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-24 · N847SP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

TIM'S AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000026-48

Total time

1,052 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,000

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CK. BENCH CK FUEL SYS REVEALED NO MALFUNCTION.

Investigator remarks

NO ENGINE MALFUNCTION DURING GROUND OPERATIONAL

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 2685. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2685.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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