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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI82FA006

1981-10-18 DIXON, Illinois, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

SHORTS SD3-30 · N331MV

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000SH-3034

Total time

5,626 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,000

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IN 1IN DIAMETER HOLE.

Investigator remarks

ICE FM PROP PENETRATED WINDOW OF ROW 3 RESULTING

Cause factors

  • 84/A/D A
    MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/F J
    WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint cause
  • 88/J/73 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-PROPELLER 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 5 0064. Source file NTSB_1981_5_0064.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.