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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72FJA13

1972-01-26 BARBERS PT, Hawaii, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101MA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-31-350

Year of manufacture

1977

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19771008

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0097F

Registrant of record

PABLO AIR CHARTERS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N101MA MURRAYAIR MA-1 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

MURRAYAIR MA-1 · N101MA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

EWA

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

050° / 13 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

1,148 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,500

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOR SAFE ABORT. RAN INTO CANE FLD. HI TIME ENG.

Investigator remarks

NR 9 CYL HEAD FAILED. INSUFFICIENT RWY REMAINED

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND

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 0553. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0553.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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