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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69D0190

1968-10-05 BAYPORT, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1876G Champion 7ECA 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 7ECA · N1876G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

EDWARDS FIELD

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

158 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,045

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTROLS.

Investigator remarks

PROSPECTIVE BUYER MADE HARD LANDING. PIC TOOK CO

Cause factors

64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/30 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 3687. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3687.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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