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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67F0479

1967-02-10 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4011W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-32-300

Year of manufacture

1966 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4B2E8

Registrant of record

ADAMI DEVIN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4011W 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 · N4011W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

30 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,300

Age

55

Cause factors

74/A/KA A
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0391. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0391.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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