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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEK05

1979-11-18 COLUMBUS, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9032A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170A

Year of manufacture

1949 · 30 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560220

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC7CF0

Registrant of record

PROAG SERVICES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9032A Cessna 170A 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 170A · N9032A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SOUTH COLUMBUS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000018787

Total time

1,163 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,077

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.HIT BRUSH.

Investigator remarks

PIECE OF WEATHER SEALING FOUND IN THROAT OF CARB

Cause factors

74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/81 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF

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 2980. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2980.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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