NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI76FEV36
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
MAULE M5210C · N222AR
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
DD
Weather at impact
Sky
OVERCAST
Wind
045° / 12 kt
Temp
50° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000007010C
Total time
6 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
990
Age
39
Cause factors
- 64/A/04 A PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/B J WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
- 82/J/C J WEATHER FOG Joint cause
- 83/J/F J TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1373.
Source file
NTSB_1976_3_1373.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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