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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC68A0135

1968-06-18 UTICA, New York, United States Fatal 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

N.AMERICAN SNJ · N1114

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Airport

RIVERSIDE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 6 kt

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,604 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,320

Age

30

Investigator remarks

STALLED DURING STEEP TURN.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 1838. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1838.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.