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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73DEK02

1972-07-07 NEWARK, Ohio, 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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N37001

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001662

Total time

4,937 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

343

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LLUP.

Investigator remarks

PLT SAID HE WAS WATCHING DOGS ON THE GND DURG PU

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING 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 1730. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1730.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.