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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD74DKM14

1973-08-21 SALISBURY, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8163W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1965 · 8 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650319

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB227C

Registrant of record

AKINS DARYL D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8163W Piper PA-28 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-28 · N8163W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

ROWAN COUNTY

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

060° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-2280

Total time

3,196 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

765

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WY. GR FAILED.

Investigator remarks

SIMULATED FORCED LDG. STUDENT LND HARD TO L OF R

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
66/B/25 B
DUAL STUDENT
64/B/30 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT
88/K/13 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Joint factor
88/K/22 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 2159. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2159.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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