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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA70D0176

1969-07-03 ATHENS, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N71235

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BALLOON WORKS FIREFLY 7

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9865A

Registrant of record

MILLER ROYCE D

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

CESSNA 182 · N71235

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ATHENS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018259546

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

121

Age

42

Investigator remarks

ACFT PORPOISED. BENT NOSE GR FORK.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/25 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/62 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3021. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3021.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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