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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0542

1966-01-15 CAHOKIA, Illinois, 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

BEECHCRAFT A23 · N1443L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BI-STATES

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 12 kt

Temp

25° F

Aircraft history

Total time

147 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

19

Age

39

Cause factors

  • 64/A/22 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0088. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0088.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.