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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0556

1966-01-21 JOLIET, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1509S BEECHCRAFT P35 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

BEECHCRAFT P35 · N1509S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JOLIET

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

020° / 4 kt

Temp

27° F

Aircraft history

Total time

906 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

3,900

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROM AIRFRAME

Investigator remarks

PILOT FAILED TO ADEQUATELY REMOVE ICE AND SNOW F

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/74 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE 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 0444. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0444.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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