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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEE47

1975-02-26 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6800Y Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N6800Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

270° / 23 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-4137

Total time

1,145 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

381

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WN ICE PATCHES ON RWY,HVY BRAKING BFR END OF RWY.

Investigator remarks

FIRST PART OF RWY FREE OF ICE.PLT APLD BRAKES BT

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
80/L/BB L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint factor

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 1060. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1060.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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