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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FCD27

1972-09-03 BLAKESBURG, Iowa, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2163B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8F

Year of manufacture

1949 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570918

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1D28F

Registrant of record

MONTGOMERY DOUGLAS R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2163B Luscombe 8F 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

LUSCOMBE 8F · N2163B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ANTIQUE AIR FLD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000006590

Total time

1,267 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,118

Age

68

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 3331. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3331.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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