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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76FLJ06

1975-08-12 KINSTON, North Carolina, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3696A Piper PA-18A Fatal

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-18A · N3696A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

STALLINGS FIELD

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 4 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-3045

Total time

4,759 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,240

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

H HELMET USED.

Investigator remarks

NEITHER SPECIAL CLOTHING,GLOVES,GOGGLES NOR CRAS

Cause factors

64/A/64 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/20 J
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Joint cause

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 3526. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3526.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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