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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD77FLT06

1977-08-24 MILLINGTON, Tennessee, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N23321 Cessna 150H 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 150H · N23321

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CHARLES BAKER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

050° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015068872

Total time

5,101 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

62

Age

23

Investigator remarks

PAX ON FLIGT CONTROLS AFTER POWER SURGE.

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/AN C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOW COMPRESSION Cause
88/C/AR C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON DEPOSITS Cause
68/B/K4 B
PERSONNEL PASSENGER
88/B/77 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS

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 1919. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1919.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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