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CHI80FEX37

1980-09-28 · MARION, Indiana, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIETENPOL GN-1 · N4933
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
MARION
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000GN-1-135
Total time
33 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
700
Age
55

Investigator remarks

ELEVATOR PUSH-PULL CTL ROD FAILED.

Cause factors

  • 75/A/CC A
    SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2921. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2921.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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