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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70FDJ23

1970-06-13 APPLETON, Wisconsin, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11054

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HUGHES 369D

Year of manufacture

1981

TCDS

H3WE · MD HELICOPTERS INC (MDHI)

Engine

ALLISON 250 SER 250HP (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810310

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02F57

Registrant of record

WINCO INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11054 Champion 7ECA Serious

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

CHAMPION 7ECA · N11054

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

OUTAGAMIE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000016

Total time

1,334 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

293

Age

52

Investigator remarks

REAR CTL STICK SECURED FULL AFT BY SEAT BELT.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 2606. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2606.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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