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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79DEX40

1979-08-30 DELPHI, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5230R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC S-57A

Year of manufacture

2006

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20060227

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6967B

Registrant of record

DAVENPORT RICHARD

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

CESSNA 172 · N5230R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

DELPHI MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017263444

Total time

3,487 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

39

Age

20

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 80/K/BF K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS 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 2233. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2233.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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