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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN67D0286

1967-05-30 RUIDOSO, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N91880

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-23B

Year of manufacture

1952 · 15 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800506

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACB7EC

Registrant of record

WESTCOTT PHILIP G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

SCHWEIZER SGS1 · N91880

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

580 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

700

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FC STOPPED.GLIDER STRUCK CAR IN LNDG ROLLOUT AREA.

Investigator remarks

DUE LOSS OF LIFT,PLT ATTEMPTED LNDG ON HWY.HWY T

Cause factors

  • 64/A/27 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/J/K5 J
    PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE 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 1955. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1955.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.