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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC75DCD20

1974-09-14 MILFORD, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7721N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1969 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690212

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA72FD

Registrant of record

ROME NICHOLAS S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7721N 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 · N7721N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MILFORD MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-5167

Total time

1,750 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,000

Age

60

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ACROSS ROWS OF BEANS.

Investigator remarks

PLT ACDTLY TURNED FUEL SELECTOR TO OFF PSN.LNDD

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/L/AF L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ACTION,LACK OF

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 3237. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3237.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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