NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI80FEE14
Registry · N30100
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
PIPER PA-34-200T
Year of manufacture
1978 · 2 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER (225 hp)
Seats / Engines
7 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
19780927
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A3257A
Registrant of record
JETSTREAM COWBOYS LLC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
PIPER PA-34 · N30100
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EB
Operator type
Business
Airport
ELGIN
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Serial number
0034-7870463
Total time
333 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
5,880
Age
47
Investigator remarks
R SIDE PAX CABIN DOOR OPENED ON FINAL APPROACH.
Cause factors
- 64/C/48 C PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
- 64/B/82 B PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
- 64/L/29 L PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
- 88/K/21 K MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREMATURE FLAP RETRACTION Joint factor
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 0316.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_0316.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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