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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77FEK29

1977-09-05 COLUMBUS, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10RB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOSTON STOLP SA-300

Year of manufacture

1975 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19830919

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A003D4

Registrant of record

PAPP RICHARD F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N10RB STARDUSTER SA-300 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

STARDUSTER SA-300 · N10RB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

JOSEPHINUM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000B1976

Total time

75 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,810

Age

48

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/D J
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 2273. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2273.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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