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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA78DKG56

1978-07-04 TOCCOA, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5669U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1969 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691007

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A740DA

Registrant of record

ROLLINS SETH B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5669U Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5669U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

TOCCOA

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

310° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-26466

Total time

1,450 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

550

Age

25

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 1741. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1741.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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