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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FKG13

1971-07-29 WILLIAMSON, Georgia, 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

PITTS SPCL S-1C · N101M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

ANTIQUE ACRES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000WAM-1

Total time

131 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

10,005

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CDT.ON FINAL ENG DID NOT RESPOND,LNDD IN ORCHARD.

Investigator remarks

CARB IDLE SPEED READJUSTED UP TO 600RPM DAY OF A

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 4373. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4373.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.