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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77DEX22

1977-05-01 LAFAYETTE, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9092M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

INFINITY POWER PARACHUTES INFINITY 2004

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

ROTAX 912UL2 (80 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20100115

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC9345

Registrant of record

MILLER DENNIS J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9092M Cessna 180H 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 180H · N9092M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

PURDUE U.

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018052192

Total time

780 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

153

Age

59

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

OTHER PILOT WAS PIC DURING IFR PORTION OF FLIGHT

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
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 1166. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1166.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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