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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA67A0017

1967-05-04 NEW CASTLE, Virginia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1301G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHLEICHER ASW-20

Year of manufacture

1978

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800407

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A07DB3

Registrant of record

FAUST STANLEY J

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

CESSNA 205 · N1301G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

1,554 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

535

Age

22

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE-5/5/67.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 2 0309. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0309.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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