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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0508

1969-02-20 OSCEOLA, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6313N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NANCHANG CHINA CJ-6A

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110512

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A84441

Registrant of record

ALTITUDE IS EVERYTHING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6313N Champion 7ECA 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

CHAMPION 7ECA · N6313N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

OSCEOLA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

315° / 3 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Total time

470 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,000

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

H 6 IN RUBBER HOSE BY UNK INDV.AVOIDED ACFT ON T/0

Investigator remarks

FUEL TANK INTERCONNECT VENT FITTING REPLACED WIT

Cause factors

74/C/CJ C
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause
88/C/31 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BOGUS PART Cause
88/C/AD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNAPPROVED MODIFICATION Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION

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 0745. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0745.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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