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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEI44

1975-04-20 WADSWORTH, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4293Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172L

Year of manufacture

1971 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19711025

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A51FDE

Registrant of record

KCSI AERIAL PATROL INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4293Q Cessna 172L 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

CESSNA 172L · N4293Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WELTZIEN SKYPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 13 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017260193

Total time

2,183 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

78

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FT DEEP DITCH.

Investigator remarks

ACFT CROSSED END OF RWY,CROSSED A ROAD HIT A TWO

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1034. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1034.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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