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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74AC027

1973-09-24 GARY, Indiana, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N566E Lockheed 1049H Minor

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

LOCKHEED 1049H · N566E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

GARY MUNI

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

060° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004838

Total time

12,540 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

16,774

Age

62

Investigator remarks

L GR FAILED.

Cause factors

65/C/25 C
COPILOT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
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 3301. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3301.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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