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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEP55

1980-09-14 FRANKSVILLE, Wisconsin, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N37512 Bensen B-8M 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

BENSEN B-8M · N37512

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Airport

HUNT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

010° / 17 kt

Temp

57° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

11 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

10

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NED W MARKINGS ON STEERING BAR.

Investigator remarks

BOOT HEEL FD 30YDS FM ACFT W GROOVE ON HEEL ALIG

Cause factors

64/A/43 A
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTROL INTERFERENCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause
70/J/D1 J
AIRFRAME RUDDER SURFACES,ATTACHMENTS 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 3452. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3452.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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