NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI81FA081
Registry · N5391M
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
GLASGOW GARY E KR 2
Year of manufacture
1989
Engine
REVMASTER 2100 (65 hp)
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19890210
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A6D463
Registrant of record
ACKLAM DAVID
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
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 152 · N5391M
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EB
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
CRYSTAL
Kind of flying
A3
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
340° / 6 kt
Aircraft history
Serial number
000015284577
Total time
411 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
359
Age
33
Cause factors
- 64/A/16 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/91 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING 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 1337.
Source file
NTSB_1981_3_1337.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
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- NASA NTRS 2021 · Poster
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- Semantic Scholar 2020 · Article (Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy)
Routine opioid outcome monitoring in community pharmacy: Outcomes from an open-label single-arm implementation-effectiveness pilot study.
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