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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79DEX10

1978-12-12 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 · N7349G

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

D

Airport

EAGLE CREEK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017259049

Total time

2,884 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

381

Age

20

Investigator remarks

LINEMAN STRUCK BY PROPELLER.

Cause factors

  • 68/A/K3 A
    PERSONNEL GROUND CREWMAN 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 4111. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4111.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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