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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67D0481

1967-02-05 BETHEL, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 150 · N7721F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

GRIMES

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

491 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

32

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

STOOK ADJACENT WHEAT FIELD FOR AIRPORT.

Investigator remarks

PILOT LANDED TO WAIT FOR SNOW SHOWERS TO PASS.MI

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/B J
    TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED 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 3 0361. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0361.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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