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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73DRJ30

1973-04-04 ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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-28R · N5349T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

CHANDLER

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

340° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

028R-7235226

Total time

191 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,380

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SHORT OF RWY.WING DMGD.

Investigator remarks

L LDG GR HIT CONCRETE BLOCK ABT 2FT HI APRX 50FT

Cause factors

  • 66/C/48 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 0824. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0824.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.