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Event SEA76DYI13

1976-01-01 MEDFORD, Oregon, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6584H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1946 · 30 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550829

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8AD5E

Registrant of record

BUTLER LANCE C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6584H Piper J-3 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 J-3 · N6584H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MEDFORD-JACKSN CO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

320° / — kt

Temp

32° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000019778

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

220

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& LND ON 14.T/D SHORT OF THRESHOLD.

Investigator remarks

ENG FAIL AFTER TKOF FM RWY 32.ATMTD TO TURN BACK

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
88/K/06 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISREGARD OF GOOD OPERATING PRACTICE Joint factor
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 0190. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0190.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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