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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0714

1966-05-06 FLUSHING, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1469H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WARD SIMONIS SKYFALL

Year of manufacture

2014

Engine

ROTAX 912S (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20140417

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0BC95

Registrant of record

SINNOTT-SIMONIS LYLE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1469H Aeronca 15AC None

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

AERONCA 15AC · N1469H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

DALTON RESERVOIR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

350° / 26 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

768 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,470

Age

52

Investigator remarks

DOWNWIND TAKEOFF ATTEMPTED ON SMALL LAKE.

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/06 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF 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 1006. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1006.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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