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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71DEC56

1971-06-06 PLYMOUTH, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N22038 Cessna 150H 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 150H · N22038

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

METTETAL

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 60 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015068024

Total time

3,058 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

290

Age

48

Investigator remarks

WIND 60K GUSTING.

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/L/X L
WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY

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 1850. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1850.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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