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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEE09

1975-07-12 HINCKLEY, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N41494 Piper PA-34 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-34 · N41494

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HINCKLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

010° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000347450124

Total time

490 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

103

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D OF DIRT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT SLID OFF END OF RWY L GR HIT ONE FT HI MOUN

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/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
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 2532. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2532.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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