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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68F0377

1967-08-03 EAGLE RIVER, Wisconsin, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7511U Volmer VJ-22 Serious

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

VOLMER VJ-22 · N7511U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

EAGLE RIVER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

127 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

385

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UM PERFORMANCE ACFT NOT CERTIFIED FOR PAX.

Investigator remarks

STRONG GUST INVERTED ACFT.WIND 25K GUSTING.MINIM

Cause factors

82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 2 0766. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0766.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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