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CHI68F0062

1967-06-02 · DUNREITH, Indiana, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N4A has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (GOODYEAR GZ-20A, built 1983), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
GOODYEAR GZ-19A · N4A
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
E
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
K
Kind of flying
B2

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time
14,236 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,467
Age
44

Investigator remarks

FLEW TOO LOW IN TRYING TO AVOID STRONG HEAD WIND

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1788. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1788.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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