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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0069

1968-05-19 LAWRENCEVILLE, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8652R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20001111

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABE418

Registrant of record

FOUR ALPHA JULIET LLC

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

SCHWEIZER SGS-1 · N8652R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LAWRENCEVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

193 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

918

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UST BEFORE TOUCHDOWN.

Investigator remarks

HEAD WIND 10-15K GUSTING 25K. PLT LOST CONTROL J

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/H A
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/1/AW 1
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 1926. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1926.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.