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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEC28

1981-06-19 PLYMOUTH, Michigan, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8532Q Cessna U206F 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

CESSNA U206F · N8532Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

METTETAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U20603388

Total time

561 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,560

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RING RACES.

Investigator remarks

INTERIOR OF PROP CONTAINED RUST ON BEARING & BEA

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/J/FY J
POWERPLANT OTHER Joint cause
88/J/55 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CORRODED/CORROSION 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 2759. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2759.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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