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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK65X0584

1964-11-06 LOUISBURG, North Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4869M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-11

Year of manufacture

1947 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19571002

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A60282

Registrant of record

LANEY KRISTEN V

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4869M Piper PA-11 Serious

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 PA-11 · N4869M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

FRANKLIN FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

69 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MADE WITHOUT FURTHUR DAMAGE.

Investigator remarks

COLLISON WITH WIRES DAMAGED ROTOR BLADES-LANDING

Cause factors

88/A/96 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 2 0656. Source file NTSB_1964_2_0656.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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