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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA70DKG24

1970-04-10 CHAMBLEE, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

MAULE M-4C · N9851M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

PEACHTREE-DEKALB

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000006C

Total time

325 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

50

Investigator remarks

TAIL WHEEL FAILED INTERNALLY.

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CD C
    AIRFRAME TAILWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 88/L/94 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE

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 1109. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1109.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.