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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC69F0227

1968-08-31 PEQUOT LAKES, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2388Q Beech B23 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

BEECH B23 · N2388Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BREEZY POINT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

441 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

31

Age

34

Investigator remarks

HIT GAS PUMPS.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED 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 3518. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3518.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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