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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD71FKM29

1971-02-24 SALISBURY, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6362P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1959 · 12 years old at event

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A856B2

Registrant of record

STEARMAN AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6362P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N6362P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ROWAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-1472

Total time

1,416 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

889

Age

54

Investigator remarks

GEAR SYSTEM AND HORN GROUND CHECKED OK.

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR 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 0582. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0582.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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