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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD73DKM40

1973-05-11 GREENSBORO, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N139T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SPORT PERFORMANCE AVIATION LLC PANTHER LS

Year of manufacture

2016

Engine

JABIRU 3300L (120 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20160505

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A09E49

Registrant of record

TAYLOR DAVID A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N139T Piper PA-18 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-18 · N139T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

AIR HARBOR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-2253

Total time

2,043 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

778

Age

56

Cause factors

64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 1034. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1034.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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