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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD70DKM11

1970-05-28 ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N75371 Aeronca L-16 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

AERONCA L-16 · N75371

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

J

Airport

ASHEVILLE AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000047-1119

Total time

1,715 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

800

Age

39

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED WIND GUSTED 90 DEG FROM L TO EST 15K.

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 2352. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2352.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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