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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FKG65

1972-01-09 FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N704X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 757-2Q8

Year of manufacture

1997

Engine

P & W PW2037

Seats / Engines

178 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19970129

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A96577

Registrant of record

DELTA AIR LINES INC

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

CESSNA 150 · N704X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015059141

Total time

2,339 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

548

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FIELD-UP HILL,STRUCK WIRES AFTER TAKE OFF.

Investigator remarks

PIC ATTEMPTED A TAKE OFF FROM 1364 FT ROUGH SOD

Cause factors

  • 64/A/51 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/F J
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3896. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3896.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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