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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76DEM46

1976-06-06 PLAINWELL, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N109R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH HAWKER 900XP

Year of manufacture

2008

Engine

HONEYWELL TFE731-50R

Seats / Engines

17 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20081028

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0279A

Registrant of record

CAPITAL AIR SC LLC

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

SCHREDER HP14 · N109R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

D

Airport

OTSEGO PLAINWELL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000006

Total time

565 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

139

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ARAGE DRG TURN BACK TO ARPT.WHEEL EQPD.

Investigator remarks

TOW ACFT RLSD GLIDER ABT 50 FT AGL.HIT TREES & G

Cause factors

  • 68/A/K0 A
    PERSONNEL PILOT OF OTHER AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2260. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2260.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.