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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67D0074

1966-07-09 COLUMBIA, Kentucky, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6104H Piper J-3 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

PIPER J-3 · N6104H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

LUDOT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

92° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

70

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

THROTTLE FULL OPEN, AIRCRAFT UNOCCUPIED.

Investigator remarks

FLOODED ENGINE PROPPED WITH IGNITION SWITCH ON,

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 1841. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1841.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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