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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73AM047

1972-11-05 BRUNSWICK, Georgia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4340K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RANS S-2R

Year of manufacture

1975

Engine

WRIGHT R-1300-1B (800 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19920422

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5345C

Registrant of record

MORTEN JOHN E DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4340K Navion A Fatal

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

NAVION A · N4340K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

040° / 6 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00NAV-4-1340

Total time

1,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

44

Investigator remarks

ACFT NOT RCVRD.DMG,INJ INDEX PRESUMED.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/G K
TERRAIN ROUGH WATER 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 3601. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3601.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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