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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70F0033

1969-06-10 BELLEVILLE, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N94610 ERCO 415-CD 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

ERCO 415-CD · N94610

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SCHWARZER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 7 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Total time

734 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

250

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TAILWIND 7K GUSTING.

Investigator remarks

L BRAKE DISC AND LININGS WORN OUT. L QUARTERING

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
88/C/BQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
64/L/80 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1684. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1684.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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