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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79DEE22

1978-12-26 NAPERVILLE, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1294Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150L

Year of manufacture

1971 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19710608

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A07814

Registrant of record

KIMMONS ANTHONY J

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

CESSNA 150 · N1294Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

NAPER AERO

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015072594

Total time

3,717 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

60

Age

31

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 4165. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4165.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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