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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77FCA01

1977-01-05 CAHOKIA, Illinois, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5797L AMERICAN AA1 Minor

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

AMERICAN AA1 · N5797L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A7

Operator type

D

Airport

PARKS BI-STATE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000197

Total time

794 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

525

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FAILED TO REDUCE POWER AFTER START.

Investigator remarks

CFI HAND PROPPED PLANE.DUAL STUDENT AT CONTROLS

Cause factors

66/A/44 A
DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BQ J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RAMP/TAXIWAY Joint cause

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 0205. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0205.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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