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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69D0147

1968-08-26 WALLKILL, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6766W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N6766W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

KOBELT

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

300° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,160 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

82

Age

51

Investigator remarks

LEFT CROSS WIND 90 DEG 10 KNOTS GUSTING 18 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
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND

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 3000. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3000.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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