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Event DIA69D0184

1969-04-13 WAYNESBORO, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2451W Schweizer 2-33 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

SCHWEIZER 2-33 · N2451W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

WAYNESBORO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

434 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

670

Age

34

Cause factors

66/C/79 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 1073. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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