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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73FKG61

1973-02-14 ATHENS, 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

BEECH 100 · N570DU

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

ATHENS MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

100° / 8 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000B-20

Total time

1,673 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

19,633

Age

64

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-FAILED TO ARREST HIGH SINK RATE DRG LDG

Investigator remarks

MDA 1160FT.0946 SPCL WX.FLAPS FOUND IN UP PSN.

Cause factors

  • 84/C/J C
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
  • 64/L/20 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
  • 64/L/26 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION
  • 82/L/A L
    WEATHER LOW CEILING
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0829. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0829.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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