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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72FXQ27

1972-04-01 RENO, Nevada, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4444

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SPARTAN 7W

Year of manufacture

1939 · 33 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560715

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A55C5D

Registrant of record

OLD STYLE AIRCRAFT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4444 Spartan 7W 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

SPARTAN 7W · N4444

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

RENO INTERNATIONL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

080° / 8 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000018

Total time

2,589 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

998

Age

40

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
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 0981. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0981.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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