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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD75FKW03

1974-07-28 SPRINGFIELD, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6032Z Piper PA-25 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-25 · N6032Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

REID FARM

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

100° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025-39

Total time

3,640 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,224

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FFLER BLOCKED EX OUTLET.

Investigator remarks

INTERNAL TUBE BAFFLE BKN LOOSE FM EACH END OF MU

Cause factors

74/C/G1 C
POWERPLANT MUFFLERS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/AV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
88/K/24 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD 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 1956. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1956.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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