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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEE54

1976-01-04 CRESTWOOD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11TJ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310R

Year of manufacture

1979

TCDS

3A10 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19790825

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02B8C

Registrant of record

KUBIC DANIEL W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11TJ 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 · N11TJ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HOWELL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

290° / 12 kt

Temp

7° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000023-581

Total time

4,368 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS IN FLT PATH AREA.

Investigator remarks

CRASH LNDD ON ARPT GRASS AREA DUE PRIVATE HOMES

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 1946. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1946.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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