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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA67A0044

1966-10-03 MIAMI, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N88938 Douglas C-54B 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

DOUGLAS C-54B · N88938

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Airport

MIAMI INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

330° / 24 kt

Temp

76° F

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,354

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TCH INOPERATIVE DUE WIND-GST THAT RAISED RT WING.

Investigator remarks

CO-PLT INTENDED TO RAISE FLAPS. LNDG GR SFTY SWI

Cause factors

65/A/13 A
COPILOT 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 1 0059. Source file NTSB_1966_1_0059.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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