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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68D0120

1967-07-14 VILLA RICA, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7710X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172B

Year of manufacture

1960 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610121

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA6F2C

Registrant of record

GRAVES ROBERT D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7710X Cessna 172B 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

CESSNA 172B · N7710X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

FLYING S RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

69° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,945 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

566

Age

34

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
80/L/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY

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 2460. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2460.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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