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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEE09

1974-08-08 ROCKFORD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N690WC AERO COMDR 690A 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

AERO COMDR 690A · N690WC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

120° / 3 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000011150

Total time

315 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,204

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D IN FIRE.SB-AD ISSUED BLEED AIR SYSTEM.

Investigator remarks

INADEQUATE SHIELD PROTECTION WIRE BUNDLE RESULTE

Cause factors

68/A/J6 A
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/DY A
SYSTEMS OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/DA J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN WING 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 4260. Source file NTSB_1974_3_4260.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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