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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0142

1968-07-21 PUT IN BAY, Ohio, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2928Z Piper PA-22 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-22 · N2928Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

PUT IN BAY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,559 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

116

Age

24

Investigator remarks

POINTS COVERED WITH HEAVY COATING OF CARBON.

Cause factors

74/C/BC C
POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Cause
88/C/AR C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON DEPOSITS Cause
64/B/46 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED

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 2555. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2555.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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