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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FEC40

1979-08-07 PONTIAC, Michigan, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N36P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HEMINGWAY JAMES R VARIEZE

Year of manufacture

1996

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19960905

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A40B38

Registrant of record

HEMINGWAY JAMES R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N36P Lockheed 12A 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

LOCKHEED 12A · N36P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

OAKLAND PONTIAC

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001254

Total time

9,648 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,540

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RT STORAGE AREA.

Investigator remarks

PLT RQSTD L TURNS BACK TO RWY.CRASHED INTO CULVE

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause

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 3001. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3001.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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