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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75AC085

1975-05-10 CLEVELAND, Ohio, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N644N Piper PA-23 Fatal

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

PIPER PA-23 · N644N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

E

Airport

CLEVELAND-HOPKINS

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

46° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-3116

Total time

9,068 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,705

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-FAILED TO ARREST DSCNT DRG LDG APCH

Investigator remarks

NITE VFR.UN DTRM WHY PLT FAILED TO ARREST DSCNT.

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3935. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3935.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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