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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74FEP40

1974-04-01 PARK FALLS, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N69684 Cessna 310Q 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

CESSNA 310Q · N69684

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

PARK FALLS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000310Q-0918

Total time

82 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,203

Age

35

Investigator remarks

PARKING BRAKE NOT RELEASED PRIOR TO TKOF.

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BC J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 0898. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0898.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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