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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70D0327

1969-09-28 COLUMBIA, Kentucky, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 150 · N7771F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

TEPEE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015063871

Total time

888 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

110

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

H POWER DURING LEVEL OFF.

Investigator remarks

STALLED INTO TREES. CP CLAIMS PLT INTERFERED WIT

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/B/07 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
  • 64/B/16 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2767. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2767.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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