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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75DEV37

1975-06-08 LINCOLN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N28RT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

QUAD CITY ULTRALIGHT ACFT CORP CHALLENGER II

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

ROTAX 503 SERIES (52 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20081124

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2CD2B

Registrant of record

LUISIS MARIO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N28RT JEANIES TEENIE 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

JEANIES TEENIE · N28RT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

LOGAN CO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000005-747

Total time

115 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

52

Investigator remarks

DRG FLARE FOR LDG WIND GUST UPSET ACFT.

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
82/1/H 1
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Subordinate · 1

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 1532. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1532.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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