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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA66F0513

1966-04-17 HOPE MILLS, North Carolina, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

AERONCA C-3 · N15742

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

Wind

030° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

805 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

41

Cause factors

  • 74/C/BC C
    POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Cause
  • 88/C/AR C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON DEPOSITS Cause
  • 68/C/D6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION 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 0683. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0683.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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