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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA67F0251

1966-09-02 TIMMONSVILLE, South Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9500

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WACO ASO

Year of manufacture

1928 · 38 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560404

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD36FF

Registrant of record

DEAN JAMES J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

WACO ASO · N9500

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

HUGGINS AIRPARK

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,250 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

23,979

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GEAR STRUTS DAMAGED ON CONTACT WITH WIRES.

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT CONTINUED FLIGHT TO HOME FIELD.LANDING

Cause factors

  • 64/C/15 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
  • 88/J/79 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE Joint cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3124. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3124.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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