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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA67F0348

1966-12-31 OCALA, Florida, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8139W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1965 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650305

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1829

Registrant of record

HIGH FIVE FLIGHT INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8139W Piper PA-28 Minor

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 PA-28 · N8139W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JIM TAYLOR FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,089 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

313

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ELL CRANK IN CONTROL POSITION JUST LEFT OF NEUTRAL

Investigator remarks

RIVET BUCKING BAR IN RIGHT WING JAMMED AILERON B

Cause factors

75/C/CA C
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/CD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause
88/C/77 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS 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 4273. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4273.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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