NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MIA72AM140
Registry · N101FT
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
NORTH AMERICAN T-6G
Year of manufacture
1949 · 23 years old at event
Engine
P&W R1340 SERIES (600 hp)
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19990108
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A008FA
Registrant of record
TELLING JENNIFER W
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
AMER AVCO AA-1 · N101FT
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
Personal/private
Kind of flying
DD
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
315° / 15 kt
Temp
74° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000AA1-04-03
Total time
663 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
850
Age
25
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ERATOR. MADE LOW PASSES AND STEEP PULL UP.
Investigator remarks
PLT FLEW ACFT OUT OF FARM FLD,UNAUTHORIZED BY OP
Cause factors
- 64/A/33 A PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/16 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/J/31 J PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Joint cause
- 88/J/26 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause
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 0927.
Source file
NTSB_1972_3_0927.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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