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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI82DEE11

1981-12-11 CHICAGO, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N80118

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172M

Year of manufacture

1975 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760122

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAE830

Registrant of record

SKYLENS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N80118 Cessna 172M 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

CESSNA 172M · N80118

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MIDWAY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 2 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017266382

Total time

2,437 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

166

Age

37

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 3438. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3438.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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