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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI76FEE79

1976-09-19 DOWNERS GROVE, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6665D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VOLAIRCRAFT 10A

Year of manufacture

1965 · 11 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8CD8E

Registrant of record

FREIMARK GLENN C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

N.AMERICAN 100 · N6665D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BROOKRIGE RLA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000010A-28

Total time

1,162 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

382

Age

51

Investigator remarks

WHILE IN THE FLARE PSN R WING CONTACTED THE RWY.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/23 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3325. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3325.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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