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CHI78DET37

1978-09-04 · BENTON HARBOR, Michigan, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH A55 · N511JL
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
E
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C4
Operator type
D
Airport
ROSS FIELD
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000TC453
Total time
3,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
290
Age
40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N.COLLIDED WITH ILS ANTENNA ARRAY.

Investigator remarks

CABIN DOOR OPENED ON TKOF FOR UNDETERMINED REASO

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3784. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3784.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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