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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN69F0015

1968-06-10 ROSWELL, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1687P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-150

Year of manufacture

1954 · 14 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570207

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A112C1

Registrant of record

SOFIA DE VENECIA LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1687P 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 · N1687P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

ROSWELL

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,703 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

33

Age

33

Cause factors

64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING 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 1649. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1649.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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