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Event IAD78IA071

1978-06-04 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8929C Piper PA-32R 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-32R · N8929C

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

LOVELL FIELD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0032R7680144

Total time

206 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

379

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BRACKET ON RUDDER.

Investigator remarks

NUT MISSING FROM RETENTION CLAMP ON UPPER HINGE

Cause factors

68/A/J1 A
PERSONNEL INCORRECT FACTORY INSTALLATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/D1 A
AIRFRAME RUDDER SURFACES,ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CB A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 5 0017. Source file NTSB_1978_5_0017.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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