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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FLD05

1971-08-01 LAKE WALES, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N233

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150H

Year of manufacture

1968 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680527

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A213A4

Registrant of record

STONE SCOTT ROBERT

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

CAMAIR 480 · N233

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

LAKE WALES

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001-069

Total time

1,920 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ME BOLT HOLES EXCESSIVELY WORN.

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR ACTUATING CYL BOLT HOLES,AND SUPPORT FRA

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CE A
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/BP A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELONGATED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/D6 A
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/AH J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE 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 4508. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4508.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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