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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77FA019

1976-12-28 CAIRO, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3128B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

POWRACHUTE PC 2000

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

ROTAX 582UL (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070505

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A351B1

Registrant of record

ENGLISH JARED J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3128B Beech D-18S Serious

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

BEECH D-18S · N3128B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Airport

CAIRO MUNI

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

280° / 3 kt

Temp

37° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000CA-173

Total time

6,708 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

8,700

Age

43

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 4136. Source file NTSB_1976_3_4136.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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