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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEP18

1980-02-18 DODGEVILLE, Wisconsin, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9690Y Beech P35 Serious

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

BEECH P35 · N9690Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

DODGEVILLE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

210° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D7109

Total time

2,823 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

465

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NORTH OF RUNWAY 12.

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH POLE AND WIND SOCK LOCATED 75 FEET

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3 0392. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0392.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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