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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77FEP21

1977-02-18 LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, 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 150 · N8098F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LA CROSSE ARPRT

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

140° / 13 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-64198

Total time

1,106 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

23

Age

22

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 83/C/A C
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Cause
  • 82/L/G L
    WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING

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 2282. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2282.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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