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Event CHI82DEV01

1981-10-03 MONTICELLO, Illinois, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N10390 Schweizer SGS126 Minor

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

SCHWEIZER SGS126 · N10390

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

MONTICELLO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000124

Total time

1,167 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

124

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IRECTION CAUSED PIC TO ALTER FINAL APPROACH.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTS TO 15KTS.ACFT TRAVELING IN OPPOSITE D

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/J/7 J
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Joint cause
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 1948. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1948.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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