NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI67A0046
Registry · N120
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
SCHLEICHER ASW-20
Year of manufacture
1980
Engine
NONE NONE
Seats / Engines
1 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19800820
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A053B1
Registrant of record
DITTMER LARRY J
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
LOCKHEED L-188 · N120
Damage
None
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
11,969
Age
38
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
E TURBULENCE.
Investigator remarks
STEWARDESS SERVING IN FLIGHT MEAL BROKE ANKLE DU
Cause factors
- 82/A/L A WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/12 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED 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
1 0032.
Source file
NTSB_1966_1_0032.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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