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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD71FKM41

1971-06-29 SALISBURY, North Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9603J Piper PA-28 Serious

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-28 · N9603J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

ROWAN

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-3749

Total time

1,422 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

16

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OST FULL L.

Investigator remarks

DRG LDG ACFT VEERED TO L.NOSE TRIM INDICATOR ALM

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/C/56 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INCORRECT TRIM SETTING Cause

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 0843. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0843.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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