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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68A0108

1968-06-13 GEORGETOWN, Texas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1878G Champion 7KCAB Fatal

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

CHAMPION 7KCAB · N1878G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GEORGETOWN

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

160° / 7 kt

Temp

88° F

Aircraft history

Total time

15 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,200

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

P TO CHECK RADIO INSTALLATION.

Investigator remarks

LOSS OF CONTROL FOR UNDETERMINED REASON. TEST HO

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3225. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3225.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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