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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI70DGJ18

1970-06-28 WHITESBURG, Kentucky, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6768H Piper J-3 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

PIPER J-3 · N6768H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WHITESBURG MUNI

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000019983

Total time

1,902 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

16

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FF RWY.NO DUAL LAST 9 MOS.

Investigator remarks

RWY ON MTN TOP,STEEP DROP BOTH SIDES,ACFT WENT O

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/02 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER 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 3 2770. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2770.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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