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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0206

1965-08-12 ELMIRA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N631U Grumman G164 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

GRUMMAN G164 · N631U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

K

Airport

CHEMUNG COUNTY

Kind of flying

DI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

230° / 8 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

23 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,456

Age

41

Investigator remarks

PARKED GLIDER N698U SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/J/K1 J
PERSONNEL GROUND SIGNALMAN Joint 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 2 0477. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0477.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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