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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA70F0101

1969-08-11 LOUISVILLE, Mississippi, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8450G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-181

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810928

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB94CB

Registrant of record

PURYEAR ERIC D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8450G Cessna 150F 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

CESSNA 150F · N8450G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LOUISVILLE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015062550

Total time

2,776 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

30

Age

17

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.OVERSHOT PASTURE.

Investigator remarks

SPINNER BULKHEAD FAILED,SPINNER NEARLY SEPARATED

Cause factors

74/C/FF C
POWERPLANT SPINNERS,DOMES Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
64/B/46 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED

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 3367. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3367.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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