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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67A0052

1967-03-04 CLARISSA, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6167S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AIR & SPACE AMERICA INC 18A

Year of manufacture

1965 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660114

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A80866

Registrant of record

HEABERLIN HENRY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

AIR-SPACE 18A · N6167S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CLARISSA MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

160° / 15 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Total time

192 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

403

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTO WIND OF 15 KNOTS.SNOW BANKED ALONG RNWY EDGE.

Investigator remarks

PLT ATTEMPTED LNDG ACROSS RUNWAY WIDTH TO LAND I

Cause factors

  • 64/C/54 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause
  • 64/C/33 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 2 0086. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0086.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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