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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEE07

1974-07-26 ROCKFORD, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 150L · N1733Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

COTTONWOOD

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 3 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015073033

Total time

1,360 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

60

Age

29

Investigator remarks

HIT PWR LINES,CRASHED INTO HOUSE.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 64/C/15 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
  • 82/L/V L
    WEATHER OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION
  • 83/L/I L
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 2585. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2585.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.