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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76DKM33

1976-05-27 SALISBURY, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9704J 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 · N9704J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

ROWAN COUNTY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-3894

Total time

3,012 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

19

Age

25

Cause factors

64/A/44 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 1231. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1231.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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