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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEC43

1976-05-27 FLUSHING, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2673L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172H

Year of manufacture

1967 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670228

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A29BCA

Registrant of record

BALCOM TERRY J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2673L Cessna 172H 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 172H · N2673L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Business

Airport

DALTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000172-55873

Total time

2,312 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

150

Age

21

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1275. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1275.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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