Atlas / NTSB / CHI71DEE82

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71DEE82

1971-05-15 JOLIET, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6069N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER AEROSTAR 601P

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19790713

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7E129

Registrant of record

AURAND BRADLEY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6069N Beech B23 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

BEECH B23 · N6069N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JOLIET MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

210° / 15 kt

Temp

84° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000M-1163

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

122

Age

38

Investigator remarks

HIT RWY NOSE LOW ATTITUDE.

Cause factors

64/C/49 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1638. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1638.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.