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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FEP35

1972-03-26 APPLETON, Wisconsin, United States Serious 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

MUSTANG M-1 · N5RK

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Airport

OUTAGAMIE

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

050° / — kt

Temp

28° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000400

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UNDETERMINED REASON DUE IMPACT DMG.

Investigator remarks

INITIAL FLT OF ACFT. SPLIT FLAP CONDITION FOUND,

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 0376. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0376.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.