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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67F0629

1967-04-20 TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan, United States None 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

HELIO ACFT H-250 · N5460E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

TRAVERS CTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

150° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

589 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

103

Age

46

Investigator remarks

20 DEG RT CROSSWIND 15 KTS,GUSTING TO 25 KTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/22 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND 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 1270. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1270.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.