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CHI79FEC40

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

N36P has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (HEMINGWAY JAMES R VARIEZE, built 1996), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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