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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73AC072

1973-02-21 BELLEVILLE, Michigan, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N100SQ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-9A

Year of manufacture

2018

Engine

LYCOMING O-320-D1A (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190313

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00653

Registrant of record

BOWLES CHRIS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

LEAR 24 · N100SQ

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

WILLOW RUN

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000024-113

Total time

2,224 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

4,998

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T STOW SPOILERS ON GO AROUND.

Investigator remarks

LANDED LONG,HIT LOC ANTENNAE AND ILS BLDG.DID NO

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/07 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
  • 64/B/23 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS

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 0341. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0341.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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