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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67D0460

1967-01-17 RENSSELAER, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6347W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N6347W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JASPER COUNTY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,315 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

26

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

5 KNOTS.OTHER RUNWAY INTO THE WIND.

Investigator remarks

LEFT CROSS WIND 90 DEGREES 25 KNOTS,GUSTING TO 3

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 0135. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0135.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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