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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA70D0267

1969-11-28 DALLAS, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N36527

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 65-CA

Year of manufacture

1941 · 28 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4219D

Registrant of record

OSTEEN ANTHONY K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N36527 Aeronca 65-CA 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

AERONCA 65-CA · N36527

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000C-16201

Total time

1,873 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,700

Age

72

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.WIRE ACROSS CENTER OF STRIP.

Investigator remarks

LANDED ON DRAG STRIP THOUGHT STRIP WAS AIR STRIP

Cause factors

64/C/03 C
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
88/K/95 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL 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 4519. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4519.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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