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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC68F0133

1967-09-05 POTTSTOWN, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5478V N AMERICAN P-51 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

N AMERICAN P-51 · N5478V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

POTTSTOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,784 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,350

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SUBSTANTIAL.ALSO STRUCK T HANGAR.

Investigator remarks

PARKED ACFT,PIPER N5878D DESTROYED,MOONEY N2579W

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
64/L/21 L
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS

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 3420. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3420.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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