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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66A0040

1965-10-11 TUPELO, Mississippi, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7254C Lockheed PV-2 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

LOCKHEED PV-2 · N7254C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

TUPELO MUNCIPAL

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,876 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,200

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LED TO POSITION EMER BRAKE CONTROL VALVE FULL ON.

Investigator remarks

HYD HOSE RUPTURED,PILOT USED EMER HYD SYSTEM,FAI

Cause factors

88/C/07 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Cause
75/C/BD C
SYSTEMS RESERVOIR,LINES,FITTINGS 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 0834. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0834.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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