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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0344

1967-10-28 NEVADA, Texas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9685S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1966 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD7CF6

Registrant of record

SYMOND CLARENCE B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9685S Champion 7ECA Minor

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 7ECA · N9685S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

202 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,014

Age

28

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
66/B/16 B
DUAL STUDENT
64/B/30 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT
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 3877. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3877.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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