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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76FLQ03

1975-07-13 LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N100BV

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-38-112

Year of manufacture

1978

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780601

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A004E1

Registrant of record

HOWARD KEITH

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N100BV Bellanca 17-31 Serious

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

BELLANCA 17-31 · N100BV

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BOWMAN FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000077-31088

Total time

221 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

571

Age

41

Investigator remarks

NR 5 CON ROD FAILED.

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1962. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1962.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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