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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73AM059

1972-12-09 AUGUSTA, Georgia, United States Fatal 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

AERO COMDR 680V · N1195Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

EK

Operator type

Business

Airport

BUSH FIELD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001575-29

Total time

1,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,000

Age

49

Investigator remarks

ARPT BLO MINIMUMS.RVR LESS THAN 1000FT.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/26 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3737. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3737.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.