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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70AF057

1970-03-18 MILLINGTON, Tennessee, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6705X Cessna 310F Fatal

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

CESSNA 310F · N6705X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

SHELBY COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

070° / 7 kt

Temp

43° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310-0005

Total time

25,501 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,218

Age

48

Investigator remarks

BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL 0.07 PCT.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/J/65 J
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Joint cause
88/J/67 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Joint 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 0454. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0454.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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