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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FET09

1978-01-24 ELKHART, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9CT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T337G

Year of manufacture

1972 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19720822

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC6ABE

Registrant of record

SAFE AND SOUND LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9CT Cessna T337 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

CESSNA T337 · N9CT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ELKHART MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000P3370011

Total time

760 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,903

Age

56

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/L/BC L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY
80/K/BD K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS 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 0159. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0159.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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