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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73FEI20

1972-11-29 WADSWORTH, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4045U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150E

Year of manufacture

1965 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4BE97

Registrant of record

KNUTSON TRISTIAN A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4045U Cessna 150E 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

CESSNA 150E · N4045U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WADSWORTH MUN

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015061445

Total time

1,126 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

14

Age

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NT TURN PARALLED DNWND LEG LNDD IN FLD ADJ TO ARPT

Investigator remarks

AT ABT 400FT AGL THE ENG QUIT IN A L TURN.PLT CO

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND 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 4009. Source file NTSB_1972_3_4009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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