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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA69F0085

1968-09-29 CUMBERLAND, Maryland, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8816D 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 · N8816D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

MEXICO FARMS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

928 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

643

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IELD.

Investigator remarks

CAMSHAFT GR ATTACH BOLTS FAILED. LANDED IN CORNF

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 3302. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3302.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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