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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEC17

1974-10-09 NAPOLEON, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N72011

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8A

Year of manufacture

1947 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560521

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9A621

Registrant of record

BOYCE MICHAEL C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N72011

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

MAULE FLD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

340° / 8 kt

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003438

Total time

1,396 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

328

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF RWY.

Investigator remarks

UNDERSHOT.LATE ADDING PWR.HIT FENCE 200FT SHORT

Cause factors

  • 64/A/48 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/22 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 3078. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3078.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.