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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0127

1965-08-01 INDIAN TRAIL, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N70889

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1946 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560519

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A975D8

Registrant of record

EASTERN STEARMAN INC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N70889 Piper J3C 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

PIPER J3C · N70889

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

STALLINGS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,335 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

153

Age

25

Cause factors

64/A/24 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF 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 2038. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2038.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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