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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77FET13

1977-04-03 RENSSELAER, Indiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6BH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HICKLE PITTS S-1D

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER A&C (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800509

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C2AE

Registrant of record

HICKLE WILLIAM H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

STARDUSTER SA200 · N6BH

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

JASPER COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00BH-2677271

Total time

116 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

B (B)

Total hours

400

Age

32

Cause factors

  • 64/C/16 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0728. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0728.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.