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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74DEI47

1974-05-20 WELLINGTON, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1932V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ZENITH STOL CH 801

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

LYCOMING O-360 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20051129

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A17602

Registrant of record

FARMLAND AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

CESSNA 140 · N1932V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000014134

Total time

2,320 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

31

Age

28

Investigator remarks

TAKEOFF ATTEMPT FROM 900FT SOFT FIELD.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/17 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/A J
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint cause

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 3263. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3263.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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