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CHI76AC053

1976-03-09 · ALBANY, Indiana, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N25388 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BUCKEYE AVIATION BUCKEYE DREAMMACHINE, built 2003), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
FAIRCHILD 24W-40 · N25388
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000W40-119

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
962
Age
44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RD OF CURRENT CERTIFIED MAINTENANCE.

Investigator remarks

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE EXPIRED AUG 31,1973. NO RECO

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/20 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Joint cause
  • 64/J/29 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Joint cause
  • 68/J/D6 J
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2482. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2482.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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