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CHI73FEV29

1973-06-10 · MACOMB, Illinois, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
STITS SA-3A · N74872
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
MACOMB MUNI
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000000JJ-2

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
194
Age
26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT ATTACH HOLE.STITS DWG 2/17/68 CVRS.NOT C/W.

Investigator remarks

R HORIZONTAL STABILIZER LEAD EDGE MOUNT TUBE BKN

Cause factors

  • 68/A/D6 A
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/A/D3 A
    AIRFRAME HORIZONTAL STABILIZER, ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/36 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4146. Source file NTSB_1973_3_4146.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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