- Date
- October 22, 1992, 10:35 local (15:35 UTC)
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8068JPiper PA-28-181
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 29, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 15589
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Probable cause
The failure of the midway arsa controller to coordinate use of the airspace with the Chicago north local controller which resulted in an operational deviation. A factor related to the incident was the pilot's failure to follow his assigned heading.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
After departing meigs airport, the pilot contacted the tower at midway airport for a vector through its airport radar service area (arsa). The arsa controller assigned a heading to proceed through the arsa, clear of the adjacent Chicago terminal control area (tca). The airplane tracked 25 deg right of the assigned heading, unnoticed, for 5 minutes, and entered the tca, where a local controller observed it as traffic opposing departures under his control. The local controller maintained traffic separation until the arsa controller steered the VFR pilot out of the tca.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8068J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-8290084
- Airframe hours
- 3,747
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Carroll Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Rowles, Craig J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 31, 1992 · 68 hours before
- Destination
- FOD · Ft. Dodge, IA
- Airport
- ORD · O'Hare International
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 210 total · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORD, 2 nm away
Other investigations on N8068J · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.