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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71AC014

1970-08-16 LATHAM, Ohio, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N560F AERO COMDR 560F Fatal

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

AERO COMDR 560F · N560F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001034-13

Total time

4,304 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,249

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

REE 70 FT HI,1 PROP NOT TRNG,JUST BEFORE HIT WIRE.

Investigator remarks

RCVRD 8/19/70.ACFT OBSD GR DWN,PSG THRU TOP OF T

Cause factors

84/C/I C
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 1528. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1528.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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