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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA71DKD10

1970-10-30 MILLINGTON, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5869U Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5869U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

CHARLES W.BAKER

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-26701

Total time

451 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

12

Age

47

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 4069. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4069.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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