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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72DLG03

1971-07-24 TIMMONSVILLE, South Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N1342B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

HUGGINS AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005969

Total time

2,065 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

529

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HIT ARPT FUEL TANK VENT PIPE.

Investigator remarks

CROSSING ACTIVE RWY-PLT LOOKED L FOR TFC,R WING

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2731. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2731.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.