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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FKH10

1972-06-03 INDIAN SPRINGS, Georgia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6303T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA R182

Year of manufacture

1983

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19830808

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8408F

Registrant of record

PINK PILOT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6303T N. AMERICAN P-51D Fatal

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

N. AMERICAN P-51D · N6303T

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000004463871

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GLASS CANOPY WERE FOUND SEVERAL MIS FROM WRECKAGE.

Investigator remarks

RCVRD 6/9/72.RUDDER TRIM TAB AND PIECES OF PLEXI

Cause factors

84/C/I C
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 1848. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1848.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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