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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77DEE53

1977-08-15 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N84943 Aeronca 7AC 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

AERONCA 7AC · N84943

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A0

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

150° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003665

Total time

2,738 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

91

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L DAMAGE TO PA-32 N54675.

Investigator remarks

FAILED TO CHOCK ACFT BEFORE PROPPING. SUBSTANTIA

Cause factors

64/A/36 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER STARTING PROCEDURES Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/37 A
PILOT IN COMMAND STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT 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 3984. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3984.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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