FTW69D0107
1968-08-04 · KEMP, Texas, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- COLONIAL C-2 · N278B
- Damage
- Substantial
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- Dawn
- Weather
- VMC
- Phase of flight
- Cruise — descent (EF)
- Operator type
- D
- Airport
- VALENTINE
- Kind of flying
- B0
Weather at impact
- Sky
- CLEAR
Aircraft history
- Total time
- 1,683 hrs
Pilot
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Total hours
- 1,250
- Age
- 19
Cause factors
- 64/A/29 A PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/35 A PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 80/J/BK J AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE Joint cause
- 88/J/94 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 2687.
Source file
NTSB_1968_3_2687.txt.
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