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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA75FKG65

1975-04-01 CALHOUN, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1026M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172L

Year of manufacture

1970 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700915

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00F58

Registrant of record

STINAR GARY F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1026M Cessna 172L 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

CESSNA 172L · N1026M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

TOM B DAVIS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / — kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000172-59406

Total time

800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

49

Age

47

Investigator remarks

T/D ABT 20-30FT BFR RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 0668. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0668.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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