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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72DEP34

1972-03-07 BURLINGTON, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 172G · N3623L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

BURLINGTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

290° / 26 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017253792

Total time

1,410 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

895

Age

35

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 38K.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/H A
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 0720. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0720.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.