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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI73FEE56

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

Registry · N7132P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Year of manufacture

1961 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610201

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A989DE

Registrant of record

JORDAN KEVIN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7132P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N7132P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

JOLIET MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-2297

Total time

1,782 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

442

Age

57

Investigator remarks

HIT L RWY 12 STROBE LIGHT.

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
80/B/A3 B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES RUNWAY LIGHTING
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 1032. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1032.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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