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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FEP40

1979-04-07 APPLETON, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9365U Cessna 150M None

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 150M · N9365U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 12 kt

Temp

31° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015078314

Total time

1,794 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

825

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ER & RUST FOUND IN CARB BOWL.

Investigator remarks

2 TEASPOONS OF LIQUID & PARTICLES RESEMBLING WAT

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 1477. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1477.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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