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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW71FQG56

1971-02-08 BROWNFIELD, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N39067

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8E

Year of manufacture

1941 · 30 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551008

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A48613

Registrant of record

MILLER RONDO T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

LUSCOMBE 8E · N39067

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BROWN FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001828

Total time

1,325 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

144

Age

22

Investigator remarks

PLT RPTD HE HAD HIS HEELS ON THE BRAKE PEDALS.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/22 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0657. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0657.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.