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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68F0607

1968-05-01 FRIENDSWOOD, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2480W Schweizer SGS233 Serious

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

SCHWEIZER SGS233 · N2480W

Damage

Minor

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

CLOVER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

150° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

65 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,609

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AUNCH.

Investigator remarks

ENG OF TOW CAR LOST POWER AT CRITICAL POINT OF L

Cause factors

76/A/CE A
INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES GLIDER LAUNCH/TOW EQUIPMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1357. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1357.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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