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FTW68A0031

1967-09-14 · LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BOEING N2S-3 · N75423
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Kind of flying
CB

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time
5,391 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,500
Age
29

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 1157. Source file NTSB_1967_2_1157.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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