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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69A0012

1968-07-23 LAFAYETTE, Indiana, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N355US

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE TECNA P2006T

Year of manufacture

2022

Engine

ROTAX 912S3 (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20220510

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3F933

Registrant of record

MELBOURNE FLIGHT TRAINING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BOEING 707 · N355US

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

19,034 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

18,347

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N.

Investigator remarks

CABIN ATTENDANT WAS NOT SEATED. SEAT BELT SIGN O

Cause factors

  • 68/A/R A
    PERSONNEL FLIGHT PERSONNEL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/12 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/L A
    WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS 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 1 0059. Source file NTSB_1968_1_0059.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.