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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEI21

1980-05-11 WADSWORTH, Ohio, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9840G Cessna 172L Minor

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 172L · N9840G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WELTZIEN SKYPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017259740

Total time

2,464 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

93

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PTD GO-AROUND.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED DID NOT PUSH CARB HEAT IN DURING ATTM

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/21 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1142. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1142.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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