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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67D0518

1967-01-30 EASTON, 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

BEECH A23 · N3550R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

EASTON

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

363 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,800

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AKEOFF WAS CONTINUED.

Investigator remarks

ACFT SETTLED BACK TO RNWY,STRUCK FROZEN RUT AS T

Cause factors

  • 66/A/24 A
    DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/A/BK A
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE 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 3 0292. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0292.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.