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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA70FLA10

1970-03-23 ARCHER, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4675X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150G

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660804

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5B6B9

Registrant of record

BLALOCK MERREL K III

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4675X Cessna 150G 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 150G · N4675X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FLYING TEN

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 6 kt

Temp

59° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015064725

Total time

2,781 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

35

Age

25

Investigator remarks

NOSEWHEEL STRUT SUPPORT TUBES BROKE.

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0748. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0748.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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