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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72DKH27

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

Registry · N4336G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-32R-301

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19831213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A53174

Registrant of record

IN THE AIR TONIGHT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4336G MCCULLOUGH J-2 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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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