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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74DEE32

1973-10-27 ROCKFORD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9301J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1966 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660606

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACE82D

Registrant of record

N9301J LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9301J Piper PA-28 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-28 · N9301J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COTTONWOOD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

330° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-3392

Total time

1,860 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

503

Age

38

Investigator remarks

LANDED DOWNWIND ON WET SOD,SLID INTO DITCH

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
80/K/BA K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY 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 3121. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3121.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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