NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI66F0686
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
MONOCOUPE 110 · N372Y
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
DELAWARE AIRPORT
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Wind
270° / 10 kt
Temp
40° F
Aircraft history
Total time
1,536 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
113
Age
44
Investigator remarks
TAKEOFF WITH CARBURETOR HEAT ON
Cause factors
- 64/C/29 C PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
- 64/C/31 C PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause
- 64/A/21 A PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT 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 1258.
Source file
NTSB_1966_3_1258.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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