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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA73FKW01

1972-07-09 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N828K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GREAT LAKES 2T-1A

Year of manufacture

1932 · 40 years old at event

Engine

WARNER SS185 SERIES (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19661011

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB4F74

Registrant of record

LUMLEY WILLIAM B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N828K Great Lakes 2T-1A 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

GREAT LAKES 2T-1A · N828K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

LOVELL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000089

Total time

1,407 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

408

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WY 14 AFT DC9 LNDD RWY 20 WHICH CROSSED 14.

Investigator remarks

WAKE TURB PROC ARE OUTLINED IN AIM. N828K TKOF R

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE 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 3760. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3760.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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