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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70F0288

1969-08-28 JOLIET, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N34SE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SPARTAN 7W

Year of manufacture

1940 · 29 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550926

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3BC8A

Registrant of record

CLAIRE AVIATION

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N34SE Spartan 7W 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

SPARTAN 7W · N34SE

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JOLIET

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 10 kt

Temp

87° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000034

Total time

1,739 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,000

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HALFWAY DOWN RWY. GR FAILED.

Investigator remarks

SUITABLE RWY 20 DEG OFF WIND DIRECTION AVAIL.LND

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
64/L/80 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 3802. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3802.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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