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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FKG36

1975-11-28 FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3140A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1953 · 22 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550822

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A35806

Registrant of record

SZABLOWSKI WALTER

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3140A Cessna 170B 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 170B · N3140A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

WILLOW POND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025784

Total time

2,246 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

196

Age

32

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 3581. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3581.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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