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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FCA07

1981-05-11 HIGHLAND, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N49887 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 · N49887

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

330° / 14 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000002810600

Total time

1,619 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

313

Age

38

Investigator remarks

LNDD IN FRESHLY PLANTED SOY BEAN FLD.

Cause factors

68/C/D1 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/DD C
POWERPLANT FILTERS,SCREEN Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND 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 0744. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0744.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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