NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA68F0469
Registry · N331A
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
DJI WM331A
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A39986
Registrant of record
DYNAMIC DIGITAL ADVERTISING
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
SISU 1A · N331A
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
C
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
D
Airport
EAGLEVILLE
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Total time
115 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
575
Age
44
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ENTRY. FLAPS WERE DOWN,CG NEAR AFT LIMITS.
Investigator remarks
ACFT SPUN FROM STEEP CLIMBING TURN AFTER PATTERN
Cause factors
- 64/A/16 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/J/71 J PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Joint 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 0909.
Source file
NTSB_1968_3_0909.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- NASA NTRS 2000 · Technical Memorandum (TM)
Spin-Tunnel Investigation of a 1/40-Scale Model of the F-111A Airplane with Store Loadings and with Supplementary Spin-Recovery Devices
An investigation has been made in the Langley spin tunnel to determine the spin and spin-recovery characteristics of the F-111A airplane in the symmetric and asymmetric stores loading conditions.
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 · Conference paper
Session 1A - Insights & Solutions to the Pilot Shortage
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2020 · Conference paper
Concurrent Sessions: Session 1A - Flight Training
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2024 · Journal article (JAAER)
Low-Resource Automatic Speech Recognition Domain Adaptation – A Case-Study in Aviation Maintenance
With timeliness and efficiency being critical in the aviation maintenance industry, the need has been growing for smart technological solutions that optimize and streamline the different underlying ta…
- arXiv 2023 · arXiv preprint
Robust Adaptive MPC Using Uncertainty Compensation
This paper presents an uncertainty compensation-based robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) framework for linear systems with both matched and unmatched nonlinear uncertainties subject to bot…
- arXiv 2022 · arXiv preprint
Integrated Adaptive Control and Reference Governors for Constrained Systems with State-Dependent Uncertainties
This paper presents an adaptive reference governor (RG) framework for a linear system with matched nonlinear uncertainties that can depend on both time and states, subject to both state and input cons…
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