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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73DKG57

1972-11-23 MACON, Georgia, United States None 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

EAA BIPLANE P · N1419

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

HERBERT SMART FLD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000132

Total time

233 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

179

Age

30

Investigator remarks

1ST FLT IN MAKE AND MODEL.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 64/L/31 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 4045. Source file NTSB_1972_3_4045.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.