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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA67D0102

1967-05-28 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3748G N AMERICAN AT-6 None

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

N AMERICAN AT-6 · N3748G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

CARPENTER

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

8,404 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,065

Age

48

Investigator remarks

SKY-WRITING FLIGHT.INTENTIONAL GEAR-UP LANDING.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/23 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISCALCULATED FUEL CONSUMPTION Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 1759. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1759.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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