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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. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.