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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67D0502

1967-02-26 STURTEVANT, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9140W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHEFFEL FREDERICK POWRACHUTE PEGASUS

Engine

ROTAX 582SER (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20061110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACA7F4

Registrant of record

JONES RODNEY A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9140W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N9140W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

SYLVANIA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Temp

20° F

Aircraft history

Total time

70 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

50

Cause factors

64/C/50 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause
80/L/BB L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY

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 0615. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0615.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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