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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70F0078

1969-06-02 JACKSONVILLE, Illinois, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 140 · N274

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

JACKSONVILLE MUN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,303 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

185

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NCED, CAME DOWN ON NOSE,R WING TIP,CARTWHEELED.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 25-35K. PLT LOST CONTROL ON T/D,BOU

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 82/C/H C
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause

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 1884. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1884.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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