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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FET24

1978-06-25 WANATAH, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3GB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 525C

Year of manufacture

2012

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ44-4A

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20120810

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31B38

Registrant of record

KCK EQUIPMENT LEASING LLC

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

EAA BIPLANE GB-1 · N3GB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000GB1

Total time

124 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

475

Age

25

Investigator remarks

PILOT MADE PRECAUTIONARY LDNG IN FIELD.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/06 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF 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 4300. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4300.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.