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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74FEA34

1974-03-30 LAFAYETTE, Indiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3348S Cessna 210J Serious

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 210J · N3348S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ARETZ

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

290° / 16 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021059148

Total time

1,526 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

953

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NOSE GR AND R MAIN GR EMBEDDED IN GND 25FT SE.

Investigator remarks

TOPS OF SOME BRUSH SHEARED OFF ABT 15FT AGL.ACFT

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/28 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS
64/B/04 B
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS
88/B/75 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-WINDSHIELD
82/K/F K
WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint factor
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 0992. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0992.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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