NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI73FEE50
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
VOLKSPLANE 473 · N6552
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
040° / 15 kt
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000656
Total time
13 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
2,770
Age
42
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
AG MALFUNCTION.UN GAIN OVR 200FT ALT LNDD ADJ FLD.
Investigator remarks
MAGNETO IMPROPERLY TIMED.PREV LDG FARM FLD DUE M
Cause factors
- 64/C/01 C PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
- 74/C/BA C POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
- 68/C/D1 C PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Cause
- 64/B/35 B PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
- 83/K/F K TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
- 88/K/94 K MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
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 1379.
Source file
NTSB_1973_3_1379.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- Semantic Scholar 2020 · Article (Pilot and Feasibility Studies)
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