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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80FKG04

1979-10-13 ATHENS, Georgia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 152 · N25889

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

ATHENS MUNI

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015280836

Total time

1,184 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

168

Age

20

Investigator remarks

NOSED OVR DRG FORCED LNDG IN SOYBEAN FLD.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 83/K/D K
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor

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 3812. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3812.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.