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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FEP51

1972-06-27 FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N40609

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1941 · 31 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C75 SERIES (75 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4C565

Registrant of record

PRENTICE ROBERT D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N40609 Piper J3C-65 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

PIPER J3C-65 · N40609

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000073692

Total time

6,212 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

700

Age

47

Investigator remarks

HIT HI TENSION WIRES

Cause factors

64/C/15 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
83/L/I L
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 2407. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2407.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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