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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI66F0758

1966-06-04 PALMYRA, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7683E Aeronca 7FC 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

AERONCA 7FC · N7683E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

PALMYRA

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,027 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,016

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LOW TO RECOVER FROM STALL

Investigator remarks

TOO SLOW ON SIMULATED EMERGENCY LANDING AND TOO

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED 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 1348. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1348.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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