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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI74FEE85

1974-06-12 JOLIET, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8942Z Cessna 310G 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

CESSNA 310G · N8942Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Y

Airport

JOLIET MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000310G-0042

Total time

3,451 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,429

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OR ABORT.LEAD DEPOSITS.

Investigator remarks

ENG MISFIRED DRG TKOF RUN.INSUFF RWY REMAINING F

Cause factors

64/C/44 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause
68/J/D6 J
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Joint cause
74/J/BC J
POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Joint cause
84/J/G J
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Joint cause
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint 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 1714. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1714.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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