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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71FGD04

1970-07-23 WADSWORTH, Ohio, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4745T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-4-210

Year of manufacture

1965 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5D30F

Registrant of record

LEE ANDREW L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4745T Maule M4-210 Minor

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

MAULE M4-210 · N4745T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SKY PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001015

Total time

864 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,870

Age

49

Investigator remarks

HIT CESSNA 140 N5389C,SUBSTL DMG.

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3081. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3081.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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