NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI75FEP11
Registry · N193N
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
JONKER SAILPLANES (PTY) LTD JS1-C
Year of manufacture
2017
Engine
AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG
Seats / Engines
1 seats · 1 engine
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A1747C
Registrant of record
MECKLENBURG GREGORY B
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
THORPE T-18 · N193N
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise climb (DB)
Operator type
D
Airport
WITTMAN
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
280° / 6 kt
Temp
77° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000115
Total time
284 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
4,000
Age
42
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
.
Investigator remarks
WRONG SIZE RIVETS INSTALLED.WING PANEL SEPARATED
Cause factors
- 68/A/J6 A PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 70/A/AC A AIRFRAME WING ATTACHMENT FITTINGS,BOLTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/46 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WRONG PART Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/95 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/49 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 3470.
Source file
NTSB_1974_3_3470.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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