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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN68F0063

1967-07-29 DEMING, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3490K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VERGE INC X7

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3E11F

Registrant of record

CAPE MAY AERIAL ADVERTISING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3490K Piper J3C-65 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 J3C-65 · N3490K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,182 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

225

Age

23

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2607. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2607.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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