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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68F0469

1968-04-21 EAGLEVILLE, Tennessee, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N331A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI WM331A

0

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 ↗.

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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