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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71DEE68

1971-04-04 JOLIET, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7694E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7FC

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19581222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA65E0

Registrant of record

WILLIAMS LISA GOULET

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7694E Champion 7FC 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

CHAMPION 7FC · N7694E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

JOLIET

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

010° / 10 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000007FC-289

Total time

4,159 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

150

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INAL.CONTINUED FLT,LNDD W/O FURTHER DMG.

Investigator remarks

HIT TREE ABT 150FT FRM EDGE OF RWY DRG TURN TO F

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/C/13 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA 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 1247. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1247.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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