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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71FDW16

1970-09-10 PLYMOUTH, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1422G Beech 35-B33 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

BEECH 35-B33 · N1422G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

METTETAL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

260° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CD448

Total time

3,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,245

Age

43

Investigator remarks

3 VALVE LIFTERS FLAT. LND IN PLOWED FLD.

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
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 3687. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3687.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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