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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI65D0167

1965-05-19 LAFAYETTE, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7475A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172

Year of manufacture

1956 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19561108

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA0F93

Registrant of record

HAYDEN DANIEL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 172 · N7475A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A0

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ARETZ

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 12 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,530 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

65

Age

37

Cause factors

  • 64/A/37 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT 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 1044. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1044.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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