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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69D0316

1969-01-12 SIMSBURY, Connecticut, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8348V Champion 7ECA Minor

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 · N8348V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

J

Airport

SIMSBURY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 18 kt

Temp

20° F

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

464

Age

52

Investigator remarks

L X-WIND 18K GUSTING TO 35K.

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT 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 0316. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0316.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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