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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68F0528

1968-01-11 WESTPHALIA, Michigan, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6402R Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N6402R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 15 kt

Temp

16° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,278 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,078

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OVERY DURING DEMONSTRATED FORCED LNDG.

Investigator remarks

PLT ALLOWED ACFT TO DESCEND TOO LOW FOR SAFE REC

Cause factors

64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/53 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/85 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Joint 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 0203. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0203.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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