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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEE19

1975-09-07 JOLIET, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8902Z 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 · N8902Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

JOLIET MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310-0002

Total time

3,237 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,385

Age

53

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AK A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOW FLUID LEVEL Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3092. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3092.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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