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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA68D0167

1968-02-13 PLYMOUTH, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3051Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HUGHES 369HS

Year of manufacture

1974

TCDS

H3WE · MD HELICOPTERS INC (MDHI)

Engine

ALLISON 250-C20 (400 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20161025

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3346F

Registrant of record

CHARLIE HELICOPTER COMPANY LLC

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 182 · N3051Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

PLYMOUTH CLUB

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 25 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Total time

176 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

248

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RNWY END INTO PLOWED FLD.

Investigator remarks

70 DEG RT CROSSWIND,25K GUSTING TO 30K. RAN OFF

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 82/C/H C
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 0260. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0260.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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