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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80DEV13

1980-01-22 SHELDON, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N30546

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 177A

Year of manufacture

1968 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19681218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A334E8

Registrant of record

BRADY DENNIS J JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N30546 FORNEY F-1A 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

FORNEY F-1A · N30546

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

ZUMWALTS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005757

Total time

1,466 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

294

Age

38

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0037. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0037.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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