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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74FFJ03

1973-07-22 MONTOUR FALLS, New York, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N267 VOLKSPLANE WE-1 Serious

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

VOLKSPLANE WE-1 · N267

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

CRANES

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000047

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

750

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ON CABLE TO RUN OFF PULLEY.

Investigator remarks

AILERON PULLEY GUARD NOT INSTALLED ALLOWED AILER

Cause factors

68/A/J6 A
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/CA A
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM 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 1758. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1758.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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