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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0026

1968-06-15 FLUSHING, Michigan, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N980C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STINSON 108-3

Year of manufacture

1947 · 21 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6A4165 SERIES (165 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560529

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADAB56

Registrant of record

HAMMONS RANDY R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N980C Stinson 108-3 Minor

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

STINSON 108-3 · N980C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

FLUSHING

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

1,606 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

47

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

0 FT AGL CAUSING ACFT TO STALL.NO 4 CON ROD JAMMED

Investigator remarks

PLT EXPERIENCED LOSS OF POWER FIRST,ENG SEIZED 2

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/CD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1724. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1724.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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