Event MKC67F0581

1967-05-06 RED WING, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5823V Schweizer SGU-2 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

SCHWEIZER SGU-2 · N5823V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

RED WING

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

305 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

10

Age

34

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 1430. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1430.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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