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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X4008

1964-09-16 FT LAUDERDALE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N75200

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-151

Year of manufacture

1976

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760506

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA23E8

Registrant of record

ROCKWELL AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N75200 BEECHCRAFT E18S 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

BEECHCRAFT E18S · N75200

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BROWARD INTL

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

2,709 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,500

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D AND STRUCK AIRCRAFT.

Investigator remarks

CRANKSHAFT DAMPNER LINERS FAILED-ENGINE SEPERATE

Cause factors

74/A/AB A
POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/B/FA B
POWERPLANT BLADES
88/B/36 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE

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 2927. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2927.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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