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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0152

1968-08-14 BAYPORT, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 150H · N22653

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

EDWARDS

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

273 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

8

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LIGHT INSTR.

Investigator remarks

PLT TAUGHT IMPROPER USE OF ELEVATOR CONTROL BY F

Cause factors

  • 68/C/C1 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE TRAINING OF STUDENT 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 2964. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2964.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.