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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC68D0089

1967-08-13 BLOCK ISLAND, Rhode Island, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9893B Champion 7FC 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 7FC · N9893B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

BLOCK ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

045° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,069 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

49

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 20 TO 25 KNOTS.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 2831. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2831.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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