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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FKQ29

1972-02-15 TUPELO, Mississippi, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6996L Cessna 310K None

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 310K · N6996L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

C.D. LEMONS FLD

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310K0096

Total time

2,267 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

2,875

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

2 H34 HELS AND A C172,ALL SUB DMG.

Investigator remarks

L PROP HUB FAILED ON TKOF,OIL CVRD WNDSHIELD,HIT

Cause factors

74/C/FB C
POWERPLANT HUBS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/B/45 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WINDSHIELD,DIRTY,FOGGY,ETC.-RESTRICTED VISION

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 0056. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0056.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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