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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67D0452

1967-01-08 ELGIN, Illinois, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5788Z Piper PA-22 Minor

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

PIPER PA-22 · N5788Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

315° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,286 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

66

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NDED ON OVERRUN AND NOSED OVER IN 12 INCH SNOW.

Investigator remarks

PLT ABORTED GO-AROUND AFTER STRIKING SNOWBANK,LA

Cause factors

64/A/45 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 0085. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0085.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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