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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75DEP27

1974-10-08 EAGLE RIVER, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N51436

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-4-210C

Year of manufacture

1973 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730822

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6732B

Registrant of record

BOARDMAN DANVERS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N51436 Maule M4220C 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

MAULE M4220C · N51436

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

EAGLE RIVER MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

315° / 18 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001101C

Total time

110 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

390

Age

38

Investigator remarks

STRUCK RWY LGT.WIND GUSTING 18K.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 3156. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3156.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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