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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74FEE09

1973-08-12 ROCKFORD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N65414 Stinson L-5 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

STINSON L-5 · N65414

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000076-413

Total time

1,010 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,201

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T. PLT TRIED TO AVOID TREES.

Investigator remarks

CARB & TANKS CONTAINED GRITTY SUBSTANCE. ENG QUI

Cause factors

74/C/CY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 2101. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2101.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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