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MIA72DKH27

1972-04-10 · CUMMING, Georgia, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N4336G has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (PIPER PA-32R-301), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MCCULLOUGH J-2 · N4336G
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
I
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C0
Operator type
Business
Airport
MATHIS
Kind of flying
A0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
230° / 3 kt
Temp
72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000046
Total time
54 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
5,460
Age
32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OR APPLYING FULL THROTTLE.PLT NOT AN IP IN TYPE.

Investigator remarks

STUDENT FAILED TO RELEASE ROTOR SPIN UP LEVER BF

Cause factors

  • 66/C/19 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4012. Source file NTSB_1972_3_4012.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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