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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69F0365

1968-10-26 WAUKEGAN, Illinois, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6898W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-60-602P

Year of manufacture

1982

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19820226

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9282B

Registrant of record

SARAH BUSINESS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6898W Piper PA-28 Serious

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 · N6898W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WAUKEGAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,383 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

34

Age

21

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/L/26 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT

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 3944. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3944.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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