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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW73FRJ04

1972-07-17 ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4824Y Piper PA-25 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-25 · N4824Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

MYERS NR 2

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 12 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-4612

Total time

1,688 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,000

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R GROSS,STEEP BANK,GUSTY WIND & HIGH TEMP

Investigator remarks

PILOT FAILED TO CONSIDER COMBINED EFFECTS OF NEA

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/28 J
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
82/J/U J
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE Joint cause
88/J/06 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISREGARD OF GOOD OPERATING PRACTICE 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 2674. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2674.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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