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Event SEA71FYC37

1971-04-29 AURORA, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4727T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-4

Year of manufacture

1964 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20201222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5CBE7

Registrant of record

RIMEDIARE AIRCRAFT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4727T Maule M-4 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

MAULE M-4 · N4727T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

AURORA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000070

Total time

711 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,085

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

QUIT ON TKOF.ALT TOO LOW.

Investigator remarks

PLT ATMTD TO TURN ARND AND LND ON RWY AFTER ENG

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 2761. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2761.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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