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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FEX34

1978-08-24 KOKOMO, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6532K Grumman G-164B 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

GRUMMAN G-164B · N6532K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DI

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

HOWARD COUNTY

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

330° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000357B

Total time

120 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,908

Age

49

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 3473. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3473.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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