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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0076

1968-07-06 MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5948X Brantly B-2B 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

BRANTLY B-2B · N5948X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D6

Operator type

Business

Airport

MONROEVILLE

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

558 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

800

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E FAILED.STABILIZER BROKE OFF STRUCK T/R.SAFE LDG.

Investigator remarks

PRIVATE HELICOPTER RATING.RT STABILIZER SPAR TUB

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
70/C/D3 C
AIRFRAME HORIZONTAL STABILIZER, ATTACHMENTS Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
78/B/AB B
ROTORCRAFT TAIL ROTOR BLADES
88/B/94 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE

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 2273. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2273.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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