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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI67F06F2

1967-06-04 FLUSHING, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8993W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A185E

Year of manufacture

1969

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-D (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20221106

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC6999

Registrant of record

WAGNER MITCHELL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8993W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N8993W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DALTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

110 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

25

Age

16

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1896. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1896.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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