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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70DDW19

1970-05-27 ADRIAN, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N76071

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 140

Year of manufacture

1946 · 24 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA44EF

Registrant of record

DICKINSON HARLEY DEAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 140 · N76071

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

ADRIAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000010465

Total time

1,692 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

306

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ILABLE.

Investigator remarks

T/O ON SOD,GRASS 10 INCHES HI. PAVED RWY WAS AVA

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BI J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION Joint 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 2358. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2358.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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