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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA71FKD12

1971-02-20 UNION CITY, Tennessee, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8630C Piper PA-22 Minor

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-22 · N8630C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

EVERETT-STEWART

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

260° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-1305

Total time

1,976 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

73

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PEDAL,CAUSE UNKN,ACFT DESTROYED.LNDD ADJ TO RWY.

Investigator remarks

LNDD DUE INFLT SMOKE.TKOF OBSVD FLAMES L RUDDER

Cause factors

64/C/81 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
64/B/08 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT
84/B/E B
MISCELLANEOUS SMOKE IN COCKPIT

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 0597. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0597.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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