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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0242

1968-08-17 HARVARD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4005K Navion A 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

NAVION A · N4005K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

DACY

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,639 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

545

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TENTIONAL WHEELS UP LNDG.TEST FLT AFTER PERIODIC.

Investigator remarks

FUEL SCREEN ASSY IN CARB INSTALLED BACKWARDS. IN

Cause factors

74/C/CE C
POWERPLANT FILTERS,STRAINERS,SCREENS Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 2957. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2957.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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