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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73FEP54

1973-05-05 WAUNAKEE, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N36466 Taylorcraft BC1265 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC1265 · N36466

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WAUNAKEE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 11 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003288

Total time

3,350 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

129

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T SHIELD BENT LARGE QUANTITY MUD ENTRD BRAKE AREA.

Investigator remarks

ACFT ENTERED PLOWED FIELD,OVERTURNED.L WHEEL DIR

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/B/BY B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
84/L/G L
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS

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 0985. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0985.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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