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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FKJ19

1971-09-05 HAZEL GREEN, Alabama, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4381F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-161

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A54357

Registrant of record

N4381F LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4381F Bede BD-4 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

BEDE BD-4 · N4381F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

HAZEL GREEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000038

Total time

11 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

317

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RASH LND IN FARM FLD.

Investigator remarks

R AILERON AND FLAP SEPARATED FOR UNDET REASON. C

Cause factors

70/C/D2 C
AIRFRAME AILERON SURFACES,ATTACHMENTS Cause
70/C/D5 C
AIRFRAME FLAP ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 3182. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3182.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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