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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FA027

1980-02-26 INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N758HQ Cessna 172XP 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

CESSNA 172XP · N758HQ

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

EAGLE CREEK

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000R1723112

Total time

88 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,858

Age

47

Investigator remarks

SEAT LOCKING PIN FAILED.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/BI A
AIRFRAME SEATS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1073. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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