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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FEM13

1978-03-10 PLAINWELL, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7052T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172

Year of manufacture

1959 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590630

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A969D1

Registrant of record

HURST JON M

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

CESSNA 172 · N7052T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

OTSEGO-PLAINWELL

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000046652

Total time

3,013 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

43

Age

35

Cause factors

  • 64/A/07 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BD J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Joint 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 0362. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0362.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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