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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW74FPJ11

1973-10-12 ELK CITY, Oklahoma, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N59625

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1946 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630918

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7B66D

Registrant of record

SIFFORD STEVE M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N59625 Piper J-3 Fatal

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 J-3 · N59625

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

ELK CITY

Kind of flying

DZ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

170° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000013577

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

100

Age

26

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 3886. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3886.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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