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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW79FQG33

1979-01-11 SHALLOWATER, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N20833

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J-3

Year of manufacture

1961 · 18 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A40 SERIES (40 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610331

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1B298

Registrant of record

PAETZOLD LARRY E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N20833 Piper J-3 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 J-3 · N20833

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SHALLOWATER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 10 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002133

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

650

Age

27

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0737. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0737.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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