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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67D0523

1967-03-16 JEFFERSON, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N93667

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ENGINEERING & RESEARCH ERCOUPE 415-C

Year of manufacture

1946 · 21 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550820

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACFF3D

Registrant of record

SPIVEY HAROLD E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N93667 Ercoupe 415-C None

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

ERCOUPE 415-C · N93667

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

JEFFERSON MUNI.

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 25 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,319 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

110

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NG TO 35 KNOTS.

Investigator remarks

RIGHT QUARTERING HEAD WIND 50 DEG 25 KNOTS GUSTI

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause

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 0809. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0809.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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