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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI71FBQ14

1970-09-07 HAVANA, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N21681

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1938 · 32 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19571204

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1D356

Registrant of record

ADKISSON WANDA M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N21681 Piper J-3 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 J-3 · N21681

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HAVANA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002566

Total time

1,415 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

321

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OUGHT ACFT TAKING OFF,MADE ABRUPT TURN,REDUCED PWR

Investigator remarks

TKOF FRM TWY,S.OBSVD ACFT ON E-W RWY,LDG ROLL.TH

Cause factors

64/A/44 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3678. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3678.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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