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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0017

1968-06-02 LAFAYETTE, Indiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3253H Ercoupe 415-C Serious

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

ERCOUPE 415-C · N3253H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,101 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

711

Age

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AND SEAT OF INLET CHECK VALVE OF FUEL PUMP.

Investigator remarks

FOREIGN PIECE OF MATERIAL BETWEEN PHENOLIC DISC

Cause factors

84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1809. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1809.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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