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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0010

1968-05-12 NAPERVILLE, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2805G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN T-6G

Engine

P&W R1340 SERIES (600 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2D109

Registrant of record

SCIOG KENNETH R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

N.AMERICAN AT-6 · N2805G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CLOW RLA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,940 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

750

Age

45

Investigator remarks

TAKE OFF MADE WITH PROP IN FULL DECREASE RPM.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/21 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1567. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1567.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.