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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FEM12

1978-02-12 EAST JORDAN, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1EV

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0007A

Registrant of record

CYPRESS AIRCRAFT SALES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1EV Mooney M-20A 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

MOONEY M-20A · N1EV

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

E.JORDAN CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001578

Total time

1,897 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

940

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING LOSS OF CONTROL ON ROLLOUT.

Investigator remarks

PASSENGER OPERATED BRAKES(ON LEFT SIDE ONLY)CAUS

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
84/C/8 C
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT Cause
68/C/K4 C
PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause
80/K/BC K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY Joint factor

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 0921. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0921.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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