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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79IA043

1979-04-06 SWANTON, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2427F Learjet 25B 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

LEARJET 25B · N2427F

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

TOLEDO EXPRESS

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 12 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000157

Total time

3,879 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

5,252

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

ELEV FLT CONTROL BINDING.FLT MANUAL REVISED 5/79

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/CC A
SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/89 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FROZEN, MOISTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/J6 J
PERSONNEL OTHER Joint 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 5 0006. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0006.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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