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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FA051

1979-06-04 TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6561R Beech 24R Fatal

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

BEECH 24R · N6561R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

CHERRY CAPITAL

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MC296

Total time

644 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

537

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND. ADEQUATE FUEL FOUND IN ALL TANKS & LINES.

Investigator remarks

WITNESS HEARD ENG RESTART JUST BFR ACFT HIT GROU

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/L/85 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 3545. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3545.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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