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IAD75FKM17

1975-01-22 · ADVANCE, North Carolina, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER J4 · N26903
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
STRAWBERRY HILL
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000004-947
Total time
1,087 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
202
Age
36

Investigator remarks

R WING STRUCK GND,SPAR BKN.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0540. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0540.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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