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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD70F0100

1969-10-25 DURHAM, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N71307

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8A

Year of manufacture

1946 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551125

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A989AA

Registrant of record

WINGS DEN LLC

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 8A · N71307

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002734

Total time

589 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

160

Age

39

Investigator remarks

CRASH LANDED AVOIDING WIRES.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 84/B/7 B
    MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION

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 4289. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4289.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.