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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69D0241

1968-08-18 GALION, Ohio, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

GLOBE GC-1B · N3744K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

GALION

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,576 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

400

Age

28

Investigator remarks

DENSITY ALT 3200 FT. ACFT NEAR GROSS WT. WIND LT

Cause factors

  • 66/A/16 A
    DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 66/A/07 A
    DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint cause

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 2954. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2954.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.