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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD71FLJ14

1971-02-18 DURHAM, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5044Y Piper PA-23 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-23 · N5044Y

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

DURHAM SKY-PARK

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

210° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-2052

Total time

2,852 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

280

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SE GR COLLAPSED.GR SYSTEM FOUND OK.

Investigator remarks

PROP MARKS ON RWY APRX 2/3 DWN RWY.PLT STATED NO

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP

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 5 0009. Source file NTSB_1971_5_0009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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