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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0085

1967-07-04 PEARLAND, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4680E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 7EC

Year of manufacture

1950 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5B9B0

Registrant of record

JOHNSON KEITH M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4680E Champion 7EC 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

CHAMPION 7EC · N4680E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PEARLAND

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

180° / 7 kt

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Total time

4,530 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

99

Age

26

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 2190. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2190.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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