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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67I0167

1967-05-21 DEBLOIS, Maine, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

NNONE Bensen B8 Serious

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

BENSEN B8 · NNONE

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Y

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Airport

DEBLOIS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 15 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Total time

14 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

14

Age

45

Investigator remarks

GYROGLIDER CRASHED WHILE BEING TOWED BY AUTO.

Cause factors

82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 5 0003. Source file NTSB_1967_5_0003.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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