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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66D0060

1965-07-03 ATHENS, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8508E Champion 7FC 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

CHAMPION 7FC · N8508E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

ATHENS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

030° / 42 kt

Temp

69° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,293 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

194

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KNOTS

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH CONCRETE PIPES WIND GUSTING TO 42

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS 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 1712. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1712.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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