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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FEE68

1978-10-25 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5163L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19671106

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A67A85

Registrant of record

BOWYER RICHARD A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5163L Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5163L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ELGIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000028-4448

Total time

793 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

453

Age

33

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/13 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Joint cause
80/J/A3 J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES RUNWAY LIGHTING 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 4423. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4423.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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