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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74FKG66

1974-03-29 AUGUSTA, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N323GH Piper PA-23 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-23 · N323GH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DANIEL FIELD

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 18 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-3237

Total time

3,641 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

21,470

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DOUBLE ENG CHANGE.

Investigator remarks

LNDD IN SMALL FLD STRUCK DIRT MOUND.TEST FLT FOR

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/C/48 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 1028. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1028.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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