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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD74FIA05

1973-09-16 FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2547M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-12

Year of manufacture

1946 · 27 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560625

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A269B3

Registrant of record

CAPOZZI TONY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2547M Piper PA-12 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-12 · N2547M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

FRONT ROYAL MUN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000012-930

Total time

1,387 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,000

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MENT.

Investigator remarks

SWERVED OFF RUNWAY ON TAKE OFF RUN STRUCK EMBANK

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 3787. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3787.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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