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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73FEE55

1973-05-02 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6903Y 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 · N6903Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-4258

Total time

1,922 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,100

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AN EMBANKMENT.

Investigator remarks

T/D ON SOD ADJ TO RWY.ROLLED OFF RWY END AND OVR

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
88/C/13 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Cause
80/B/BY B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1405. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1405.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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