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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81DEE36

1981-05-29 MORRIS, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9682U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

UVIFY 810-00028

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD7C8F

Registrant of record

PIXIS DRONES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9682U GRUM-AMER AA-5A 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

GRUM-AMER AA-5A · N9682U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

MORRIS MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA5A-0048

Total time

979 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

181

Age

35

Investigator remarks

STRUCK WND SOCK POLE & STORAGE BLDG,

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
82/L/X L
WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY

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 1659. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1659.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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