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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0298

1967-10-21 BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, United States None 2 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

GLOBE GC-1B · N78278

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

RYAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,302 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

250

Age

27

Investigator remarks

RNWY HAS UPHILL SLOPE.

Cause factors

64/A/12 A
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY 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 3778. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3778.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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