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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI82DEM01

1981-10-16 PLAINWELL, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

QUICKIE · N12QQ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

OSTEGO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

1 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

336

Age

57

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 2765. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2765.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.