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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0620

1968-12-12 WILLOUGHBY, Ohio, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N212KA Grumman F8F-2 Fatal

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

GRUMMAN F8F-2 · N212KA

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

LOST NATION

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,293 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

12,250

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UNTER WEIGHT AND SHEARED ALL RODS.

Investigator remarks

COUNTER WEIGHT ROLLERS P/N91870 BACKED OUT OF CO

Cause factors

74/C/AY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/AV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Cause
88/C/98 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER CLEARANCE-TOLERANCE Cause
74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/CP C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SHEARED 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 4826. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4826.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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