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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67D0423

1967-01-02 SUSSEX, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5129T Champion 7DC 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

CHAMPION 7DC · N5129T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

SUSSEX ARPT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

255° / 10 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Total time

60 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

497

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WAY WIDTH REDUCED DUE TO SNOWBANKS.

Investigator remarks

RIGHT QUARTERING CROSSWIND GUSTY TO 25 KNOTS-RUN

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0020. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0020.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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