Skip to content

Atlas / NTSB / CHI71FEA35

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71FEA35

1971-04-27 GREENCASTLE, Indiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9963Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T210N

Year of manufacture

1982

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19820205

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADEBC5

Registrant of record

N9963Y LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 402 · N9963Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GREENCASTLE

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 11 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000040217

Total time

294 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

454

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

W RD ACROSS DITCH AT RWY END.LDG GR WIDER THAN RD.

Investigator remarks

BRAKE FLUID LO.11K DWNWND TAXI.TURNED ONTO NARRO

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CJ C
    AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
  • 88/C/CL C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PRESSURE TOO LOW Cause
  • 68/C/D6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
  • 84/C/7 C
    MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Cause
  • 88/L/AQ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 0480. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0480.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.
NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.
NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.
Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).
Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.
Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.
AVweb Aviation press ↗

Aviation industry news search.
Pilots of America Community ↗

GA pilot forum — informed but rumor-prone.
Reddit /r/flying Community ↗

GA pilot subreddit search.
FlightAware Aviation press ↗

Tail-number page — flight history (free tier limited).
AOPA accident database Aviation press ↗

AOPA Air Safety Institute search.
Google News News ↗

Mainstream press coverage. Recent events only.
DuckDuckGo News ↗

Privacy-preserving news search.

External links open in a new tab. We don't ingest their content; we deep-link search queries.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

Browse the full corpus — academia portal ↗