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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70F0046

1969-06-15 BLISSFIELD, Michigan, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4590R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1965 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A595F3

Registrant of record

OZAR ABDURRAHMAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4590R Piper PA-28 Minor

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

PIPER PA-28 · N4590R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

BETZ

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,482 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

172

Age

48

Investigator remarks

LANDED HALF WAY DOWN RNWY.

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
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
80/K/BA K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY 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 1623. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1623.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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