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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA69F0430

1969-04-08 WEAVER, Alabama, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N80922

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLOBE GC-1B

Year of manufacture

1946 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C125 SERIES (125 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19571028

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB0605

Registrant of record

MONTPELIER GARY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N80922 GLOBE SWIFT GC-1B 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

GLOBE SWIFT GC-1B · N80922

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

MCMINN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Total time

756 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

755

Age

38

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/U J
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE Joint cause
88/J/91 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING 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_1969_3_0909.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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