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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74FET18

1974-04-16 WATERVLIET, Michigan, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

TEENIE TWO · N4306

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WATERVLIET

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000771672

Total time

82 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

170

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

H WINGS BKN OFF.

Investigator remarks

PRE-IGNITION DUE UNLEADED FUEL.LNDD IN SWAMP.BOT

Cause factors

  • 68/C/D3 C
    PERSONNEL IMPROPERLY SERVICED AIRCRAFT (OWNER-PILOT) Cause
  • 88/C/37 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL GRADE-IMPROPER Cause
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 0747. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0747.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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