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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68F0625

1968-02-25 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9285J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660524

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACDEF2

Registrant of record

COPE JARRET C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9285J 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 · N9285J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

433 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

116

Age

29

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
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 0442. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0442.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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