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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68A0041

1967-12-23 GORDON, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5918X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BRANTLY B-2

TCDS

2H2 · BRANTLY INTERNATIONAL INC

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7A4A4

Registrant of record

RILEY LUTHER R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5918X Brantly B-2A 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

BRANTLY B-2A · N5918X

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

921 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

700

Age

41

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1141. Source file NTSB_1967_2_1141.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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