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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70A0020

1969-10-08 PAOLI, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8030Z Cessna U206 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

CESSNA U206 · N8030Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000430

Total time

2,222 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,095

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CHED FUEL TANKS.

Investigator remarks

AD69-8-11 NCW. CAUSED ENG FLOODING WHEN PLT SWIT

Cause factors

74/C/CH C
POWERPLANT PUMPS Cause
88/C/34 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2531. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2531.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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