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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68A0033

1967-09-19 WICHITA FALLS, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 150 · N8371G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

KICKAPOO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

150° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,537 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

100

Age

40

Investigator remarks

PLT BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL- 2.64 MG/ML.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/65 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/67 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/26 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT 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 0653. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0653.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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