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CHI74FEE51

1974-02-13 · ELGIN, Illinois, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N261WR has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 560, built 1997), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MITSUBISHI MU2B · N261WR
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
C0
Operator type
Business
Airport
ELGIN
Kind of flying
B3

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000027
Total time
2,051 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
2,075
Age
27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WY.VIS RPTD AT TIME 1/16 MI.

Investigator remarks

INSTRUMENT TKOF ACFT STRUCK SNOWBANK L SIDE OF R

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 82/L/C L
    WEATHER FOG
  • 80/K/BD K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0277. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0277.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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