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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FA058

1979-07-12 WHEELING, Illinois, United States Fatal 2 aircraft Status: Completed

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

BEECH 35-33 · N306Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

PALWAUKEE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

130° / 3 kt

Temp

78° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000015024

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

600

Age

50

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 3622. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3622.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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