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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FEE65

1979-06-24 HARVARD, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N949R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310G

Year of manufacture

1962 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19620929

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD300E

Registrant of record

DENOME VINCENT G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N949R Cessna 310G 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

CESSNA 310G · N949R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DACY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000148

Total time

3,243 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

995

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT STATED MEDICAL PROBLEM W L FOOT-WEAKER THAN R.

Investigator remarks

SUBS DAMAGE TO CESSNA N9495 AND BEECH 33 N874R.

Cause factors

64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS
64/L/65 L
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT

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 1623. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1623.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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