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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67F0576

1967-02-26 SAN MARCOS, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8594P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N8594P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A4

Operator type

D

Airport

GARY AAF

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

170° / 30 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Total time

255 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,000

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TTOM OF FUSELAGE. PLT LIT CIGARETTE.

Investigator remarks

FUEL DRAIN TUBE DISCONNECTED. FUEL PUDDLED IN BO

Cause factors

74/A/CJ A
POWERPLANT VENTS,DRAINS,TANK CAPS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BM A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/44 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0613. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0613.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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