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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73DKG12

1972-07-13 SAVANNAH, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1948P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-7

Year of manufacture

2010

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-B1A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20100323

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A17A85

Registrant of record

SHORT DON H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1948P Piper PA-22 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 PA-22 · N1948P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

ABANDONED ARPT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

87° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-2699

Total time

2,639 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

945

Age

31

Investigator remarks

HIGH GRASS PREVENTED ACFT FM REACHING TKOF SPEED

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/A/BI A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/91 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING Joint 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 3986. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3986.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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