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CHI80DEV13

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

N30546 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 177A, built 1968), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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