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Beechcraft 200 N981LL

10 May 1988 · Chicago, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 10 May 1988 at about 21:55 local time, a Beechcraft 200 registered N981LL, operated by State of Illinois, was involved in an incident near Chicago, Illinois, United States. 95 people were on board and nobody was injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date
at 21:55
Classification
Incident
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nearest airport
Chicago Midway (MDW)
Coordinates
41.8697, -87.6499
Aircraft
Beechcraft 200
Registration
N981LL
Category
Airplane
Engines
2
Operator
State of Illinois
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Public Use
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Springfield → Chicago
Aircraft damage
Not recorded
Weather
VMC
Light
Day
NTSB number
MIA88IA167

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
95 0 0 0 95

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

MIDWAY FLT 172 (MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9, N1065T) WAS ON AN IFR DEPARTURE FROM CHICAGO MIDWAY ARPT AT THE SAME TIME THAT BEECH 200, N981LL, WAS ON AN IFR ARRIVAL FOR A VISUAL APCH TO MERRILL C MEIGS ARPT, ALTHOUGH BOTH WERE IN VMC. PREVIOUSLY, O'HARE TRACON HAD RESTRICTED EASTERLY DEPARTURES FROM MIDWAY TO NOT LESS THAN 20 MI IN-TRAIL. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE HANDOFF CONTROLLER (CTLR) AT TRACON INSTRUCTED THE CTLRS AT MIDWAY TOWER TO 'CANCEL THE RESTRICTION,' MEANING TO CANCEL THE IN-TRAIL RESTRICTION. HOWEVER, THE CTLRS AT MIDWAY THOUGHT THIS WAS IN REFERENCE TO A CLIMB RESTRICTION ON THE CANAL THREE SID WHICH FLT 172 WAS USING. SUBSEQUENTLY, FLT 172 & N981LL CONVERGED AS FLT 172 WAS CLIMBING TO 3000 FT & N981LL WAS DSCNDG TO 2000 FT. RADAR DATA SHOWED THE ACFT PASSED EACH OTHER WITH LESS THAN THE REQUIRED VERTICAL & HORIZONTAL SEPN.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

Aircraft involved

Aircraft Registration Operator Damage
Beechcraft 200 200 N981LL State of Illinois -
McDonnell Douglas DC-9 DC-9 N1065T Midway Airlines -

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