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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67F0093

1966-06-26 ANN ARBOR, Michigan, United States Fatal 2 aircraft Status: Completed

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 140 · N2378N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

MC KINLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 5 kt

Temp

85° F

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

64

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT.

Investigator remarks

NO WARNING DEVICES ON HIGHWAY TO WARN MOTORISTS

Cause factors

  • 64/C/45 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 68/J/K5 J
    PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE Joint cause
  • 68/J/H1 J
    PERSONNEL FAILURE TO NOTIFY OF UNSAFE COND/AND OR FAILURE TO MARK OBSTRUCTION Joint 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 2 0274. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0274.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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