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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FCJ22

1972-11-09 OGALLALA, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4523T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI AGRAS T50

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A57C5D

Registrant of record

MUELLER DANE C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4523T Piper PA-34 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-34 · N4523T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SEARLE FIELD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0034-7250124

Total time

38 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

9,059

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TTING ON GR MOUNT.

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR AFT DRAG LINK BOLT PULLED FROM ATTACH FI

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1164. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1164.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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