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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68F0763

1968-06-02 PLYMOUTH, Michigan, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5464Z Piper PA-22 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-22 · N5464Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

METTETAL

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

280° / 22 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,922 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

97

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

,GUSTS TO 31K.

Investigator remarks

RWY MORE INTO WIND AVAILABLE.RT CROSSWIND 15-20K

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1282. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1282.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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