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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81DEE20

1981-02-14 JOLIET, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5572V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1977 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770428

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A71C1E

Registrant of record

WOOD CHARLES S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5572V Piper PA-28 None

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 · N5572V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

JOLIET PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

170° / 10 kt

Temp

26° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7725241

Total time

1,666 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

77

Age

34

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/L/BB L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY

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 0030. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0030.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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