CHI68F0738
1968-04-12 · WADSWORTH, Ohio, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- LUSCOMBE 8B · N37003
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- E
- Weather
- VMC
- Phase of flight
- EB
- Operator type
- D
- Airport
- WADSWORTH
- Kind of flying
- B0
Weather at impact
- Sky
- CLEAR
- Wind
- 190° / 5 kt
Aircraft history
- Total time
- 1,016 hrs
Pilot
- Certificate
- Commercial — instrument
- Total hours
- 73
- Age
- 29
Investigator remarks
STRUCK CREEK BANK. PLT HAD NO NITE EXPERIENCE.
Cause factors
- 64/C/48 C PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
- 64/L/02 L PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 1068.
Source file
NTSB_1968_3_1068.txt.
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