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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEG05

1975-09-05 CINCINNATI, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N40820

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

KITFOX KITFOX IV

Year of manufacture

1995

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950517

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4CD10

Registrant of record

DONAHUE MARK T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N40820 Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N40820

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LUNKEN

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 6 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7425172

Total time

1,283 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

855

Age

25

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR BENT.

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2553. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2553.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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