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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67F0199

1966-09-05 ESSEX, Iowa, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N48243 Aeronca 058B 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

AERONCA 058B · N48243

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

ESSEX

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 7 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

536

Age

27

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/J/79 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE Joint cause
88/3/67 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT 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 3256. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3256.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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