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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEI28

1981-08-25 CLEVELAND, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N87457 Cessna 310R None

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 310R · N87457

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

E

Airport

BURKE LAKEFRONT

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310-0571

Total time

1,833 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,314

Age

23

Investigator remarks

R WING TIP STRUCK METAL POST PSND NR TWY,NGT.

Cause factors

68/C/H1 C
PERSONNEL FAILURE TO NOTIFY OF UNSAFE COND/AND OR FAILURE TO MARK OBSTRUCTION Cause
80/C/BE C
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES UNMARKED OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
88/K/DA K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN WING 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 3111. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3111.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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