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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FEE21

1980-04-20 NAPERVILLE, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N16306 Piper PA-28 Serious

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 · N16306

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

NAPER AERO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 5 kt

Temp

67° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7305222

Total time

2,503 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

240

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MAX GWT.

Investigator remarks

1800FT SOFT SOD RWY.LONGER ASPHALT RWY AVBL.NEAR

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BL J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY 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 1037. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1037.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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