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Event CHI74FCA03

1974-06-24 HIGHLAND, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7727S Schweizer 1-26D 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

SCHWEIZER 1-26D · N7727S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

HIGHLAND-WINET

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000427

Total time

670 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

16

Age

59

Investigator remarks

TURNED ON FINAL,WING HIT FENCE.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause

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 1716. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1716.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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