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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74DPG22

1973-09-19 W MEMPHIS, Arkansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N66JL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1975

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770603

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8B2B3

Registrant of record

LUCIA JOANNE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N66JL N.AMERICAN SNJ-5 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

N.AMERICAN SNJ-5 · N66JL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000088-18078

Total time

3,728 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,000

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED GR EARLY,FAILED TO RAISE GR,LNDD SHORT IN CROPS

Investigator remarks

PROP BLADE TIP SEPD,VIB CAUSED ENG TO QUIT.LOWER

Cause factors

74/C/FA C
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
64/B/27 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
88/L/CV L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 2482. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2482.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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