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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77FEG24

1977-08-20 CINCINNATI, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 210 · N5913F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LUNKEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 5 kt

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021058913

Total time

2,332 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,300

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WORD OFF ON FUEL SEL PLACARD WAS OBLITERATED.

Investigator remarks

PILOT HAD 10 HRS IN A/C,OHRS IN LAST 90 DAYS.THE

Cause factors

  • 64/C/31 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause
  • 88/C/99 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL SELECTOR POSITIONED BETWEEN TANKS Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 88/L/03 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE
  • 74/L/CY L
    POWERPLANT OTHER

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 2266. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2266.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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