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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71FEK36

1971-05-18 LONDON, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2134C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 195

Year of manufacture

1955 · 16 years old at event

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550820

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1C78E

Registrant of record

QUALITAIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2134C Cessna 195B 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 195B · N2134C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MADISON COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

160° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000016119

Total time

4,656 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

724

Age

32

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
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 1717. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1717.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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