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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72FEE48

1971-12-11 HARVARD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5327K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RYAN NAVION B

Year of manufacture

1950 · 21 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-435C&D SER (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560516

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6BB32

Registrant of record

NATALIE RONALD B JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5327K Navion B 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

NAVION B · N5327K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

DACY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

NAV-4-2227-B

Total time

2,481 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

372

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RAN ROUGH THEN QUIT DURG GOARND.

Investigator remarks

FAILED TO CLR ENG DURG DSNT FOR LDG,ADDD PWR,ENG

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/34 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 4395. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4395.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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