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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FEC57

1979-09-22 FRAZER, Michigan, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9369 BREEZY RLU-1 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

BREEZY RLU-1 · N9369

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000002

Total time

370 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

221

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HEAVILY OXIDIZED.

Investigator remarks

AILERON CABLE PULLEY BRACKET LOWER WELD SURFACES

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/CA A
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AG A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POOR WELD Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 2408. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2408.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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