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CHI80FEV07

1979-11-22 · CHARLESTON, Illinois, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
AMERICAN AA-1B · N6245L
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
Marginal VMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
Part 91 (general aviation)
Airport
COLES COUNTRY MEM
Kind of flying
A3

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000AA1BO045
Total time
1,811 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Airline transport
Total hours
7
Age
25

Cause factors

  • 64/A/02 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/40 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/66 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3009. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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