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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD71FKM27

1971-02-09 CATAWBA, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N42527 Piper J3C-65 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 J3C-65 · N42527

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

CG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

25° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000014802

Total time

6,030 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,000

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LAKE FOR 3 DAYS.

Investigator remarks

LANDED IN WATER DUE TO HOUSES AND TREES.ACFT IN

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/L/88 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER

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 0627. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0627.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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