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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73FLA27

1973-02-17 ARCHER, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5331W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28

Year of manufacture

1962 · 11 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6BE22

Registrant of record

CAMPBELL PAULA J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5331W Piper PA-28 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-28 · N5331W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

FLYING TEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000028-388

Total time

2,634 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,000

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

-20-4,70-18-5 CVRS,NOT C/W.WRONG NUTS AN365 USED.

Investigator remarks

R LDG GR STRUT SEPARATED DUE LOSS NUT,BOLT.AD 67

Cause factors

68/C/D1 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Cause
70/C/CA C
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
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 0830. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0830.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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