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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73FEE32

1972-11-27 ROCKFORD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7813L Beech 65-B80 None

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

BEECH 65-B80 · N7813L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

GREATER ROCKFORD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000LD-328

Total time

3,890 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,246

Age

45

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/CB C
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
88/C/AV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOOSE,PART/FITTING Cause
88/B/51 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE
88/B/AJ B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE

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 3822. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3822.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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