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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71DBA26

1971-01-21 GREENTOWN, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8602G Cessna 150F 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

CESSNA 150F · N8602G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

HOWARD CO.

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

225° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-62702

Total time

2,230 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

32

Age

45

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
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 0569. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0569.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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