NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI74FEI05
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
SWEARINGEN SA26 · N4252X
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
Business
Airport
CLEVER
Kind of flying
B3
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
180° / 5 kt
Temp
75° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000121
Total time
2,415 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
6,100
Age
52
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
OFF FASTER THAN NORM,LNDD 3 POINT.
Investigator remarks
ABT 5FT ABV RWY,FULL BACK ELEV PRES ACFT DROPPED
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 3240.
Source file
NTSB_1973_3_3240.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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