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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEC60

1976-09-07 TROY, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1861W Beech V35B 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

BEECH V35B · N1861W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TROY EXECUTIVE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D9479

Total time

533 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

439

Age

55

Investigator remarks

HIGH FLARE ABT 15 FT ABV RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2902. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2902.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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