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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73FLG45

1973-04-24 GREER, South Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N59JR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-6A

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A79BE6

Registrant of record

RUYLE JOHN B III

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N59JR AERO COMDR 560F 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

AERO COMDR 560F · N59JR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

GREER

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

210° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001434-70

Total time

1,539 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,167

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TOWARD L HIGH SPEED TAXIWAY R GR COLLAPSED.

Investigator remarks

GR DWN 3 GREEN LIGHTS HYD PRES NML,WHILE HEADING

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1774. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1774.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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