NTSB CAROL · Event
Event UNK64X4220
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
LUSCOMBE 8E · N2527K
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
D
Airport
BUTLER GRAHAM
Kind of flying
A0
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Total time
1,898 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
380
Age
31
Cause factors
- 66/C/22 C DUAL STUDENT Cause
- 64/C/30 C PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 3083.
Source file
NTSB_1964_3_3083.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Conference Paper
Transonic Experimental Observations of Abrupt Wing Stall on an F/A-l8E Model
A transonic wind tunnel test of an 8% F/A-18E model was conducted in the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) 16 ft Transonic Tunnel (16-ft TT) to investigate on-surface flow physics during stall.
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Conference Paper
Transonic Experimental Observations of Abrupt Wing Stall on an F/A-18E Model (Invited)
A transonic wind tunnel test of an 8% F/A-18E model was conducted in the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) 16 ft Transonic Tunnel (16-ft TT) to investigate on-surface flow physics during stall.
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