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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78DET37

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

Aircraft involved

N511JL Beech A55 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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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