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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70F0120

1969-07-26 WAYNESVILLE, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N36154 Taylorcraft BL-65 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

TAYLORCRAFT BL-65 · N36154

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WAYNESVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

115° / 4 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

494 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

169

Age

47

Investigator remarks

DIRT IN CARBURETOR.

Cause factors

74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
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 2205. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2205.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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