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CHI81IA031

1981-03-05 · EAST ALTON, Illinois, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N44DG has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (LANCAIR LANCAIR IV), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
DOUGLAS DC-6A · N44DG
Damage
Minor
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
C
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Public use
Airport
CIVIC MEMORIAL
Kind of flying
DD

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000045378
Total time
36,388 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
7,000
Age
34

Investigator remarks

DSNDG THRU 7500FT,FIRE BGN AFT ENG BACKFIRED.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 88/K/51 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 5 0010. Source file NTSB_1981_5_0010.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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