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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD74DLT11

1973-12-27 MEMPHIS, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6143X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROTORWAY INTL EXEC 162F

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20010519

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A80071

Registrant of record

BURKHEAD DANNY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6143X AERO COMDR 500-A 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

AERO COMDR 500-A · N6143X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

E

Airport

MEMPHIS INTL

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

300° / 8 kt

Temp

47° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000931-26

Total time

1,892 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

9,671

Age

48

Investigator remarks

TWO FUSELAGE BULKHEADS BENT.

Cause factors

70/A/CM A
AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BM A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3897. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3897.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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