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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA71FKW24

1970-12-05 EAGLEVILLE, Tennessee, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N63904

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER TG3A

Year of manufacture

1946 · 24 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19581107

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A861A0

Registrant of record

TUTTLE RONALD A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N63904 Schweizer TG-3A Serious

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

SCHWEIZER TG-3A · N63904

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

PUCKETT FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000026

Total time

1,496 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,107

Age

42

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 4348. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4348.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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