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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA79FKG59

1979-08-10 SOCIAL CIRCLE, Georgia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2550F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1965 · 14 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650714

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A26C6F

Registrant of record

ODOM RICHARD

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2550F Champion 7ECA Minor

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

CHAMPION 7ECA · N2550F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

B.R.ANDERSON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000172

Total time

1,909 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

191

Age

48

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/N J
WEATHER LOCAL WHIRLWIND Joint cause

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 2075. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2075.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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