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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEV10

1981-03-08 PEKIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1016D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 195A

Year of manufacture

1950 · 31 years old at event

Engine

JACOBS L4 /R755-7 (245 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560103

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00B99

Registrant of record

ARDIZZONE MARK R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 195 · N1016D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PEKIN MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007624

Total time

2,550 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,044

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SET SCREW MISSING,3 LOOSE.

Investigator remarks

L CYL HAD .025 RUNOUT AT BOTTOM END.R CYL HAD 1

Cause factors

  • 68/A/D0 A
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/A/CJ A
    AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/CB A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0331. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0331.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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