NTSB CAROL · Event
Event CHI68F0062
Registry · N4A
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
GOODYEAR GZ-20A
Year of manufacture
1983
Engine
CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER (300 hp)
Seats / Engines
7 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
19950928
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A4A7EF
Registrant of record
GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.
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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