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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68D0353

1967-06-18 HARVARD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N88551

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550927

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC3389

Registrant of record

FOLGMANN ANDREW G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N88551 Piper J3C-65 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 J3C-65 · N88551

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

3,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Age

42

Investigator remarks

ATTEMPTED TAKEOFF FROM FIELD STREWN WITH ROCKS.

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/L/F L
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 3058. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3058.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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