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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FLG14

1971-10-03 CLIO, South Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N37949 Piper J3C-65 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 J3C-65 · N37949

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MACK LAMAR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006725

Total time

2,986 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

340

Age

32

Investigator remarks

LNDD IN FLD OF 5FT TALL COTTON.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/D B
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3952. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3952.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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