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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEM17

1980-03-07 TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N45181 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 · N45181

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

CHERRY CAPITAL

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

030° / 7 kt

Temp

27° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015076772

Total time

2,692 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

96

Age

19

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/B K
TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED 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 1117. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1117.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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