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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FEP06

1977-10-25 MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2252L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C23

Year of manufacture

1977 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770228

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1F63D

Registrant of record

EATON DAVID B JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2252L Beech C23 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 C23 · N2252L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

MITCHELL FIELD

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000M-1897

Total time

436 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

18

Age

33

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 4009. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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