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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67F0564

1967-05-01 NEWTON, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

PIPER PA-28 · N4515R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NEWTON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 17 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

532 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

91

Age

35

Investigator remarks

LEFT CROSS WIND 80 DEG 17 KNOTS GUSTING 20 KNOTS

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 82/A/H A
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1367. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1367.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.