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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD73DKW20

1973-03-22 ROCKWOOD, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8113H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19791008

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB0FDC

Registrant of record

T4 AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8113H Funk B85C 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

FUNK B85C · N8113H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ROCKWOOD MUN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000268

Total time

1,450 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,500

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N RWY.ROLLED INTO HI GRASS.TENN VALLEY FLOODED.

Investigator remarks

ABANDONED ARPT.LNDD TO L OF RWY DUE CAR PARKED O

Cause factors

64/C/03 C
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/B/BI B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION
88/L/62 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE
80/L/BY L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER

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 0773. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0773.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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