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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEP56

1980-09-24 BURLINGTON, Wisconsin, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N17BE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ELLISON BENJAMIN L LONG-EZ

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19871109

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A116F2

Registrant of record

DELTAFOX AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N17BE Pitts S-1S 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

PITTS S-1S · N17BE

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BURLINGTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000070067

Total time

258 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,728

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R ACFT SERVICED FRM TANK.LNDD IN CORN FIELD.

Investigator remarks

APRX 2 IN WTR FND IN STORAGE TNK.WTR FND IN 2 OT

Cause factors

68/C/D8 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 2272. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2272.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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