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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71FBD43

1970-11-29 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6096Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AYRES CORPORATION S2R-G5

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

AIRESEARCH TPE331 SERIES (600 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930823

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7EBEF

Registrant of record

KLEIN FLYING SERVICE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6096Y Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N6096Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-3303

Total time

707 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,591

Age

47

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
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 4306. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4306.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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