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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FEV20

1981-05-31 MOWEAQUA, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6CR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182Q

Year of manufacture

1977 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19771223

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C2CF

Registrant of record

J R SYSTEMS LLC

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

RODGERS SONERI · N6CR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HILVETY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

120° / 15 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000696969

Total time

112 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

377

Age

30

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 64/B/16 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 1064. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1064.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.