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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW68D0072

1967-07-10 LAREDO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5620P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SOUTHERN POWERED PARACHUTE RAPTURE

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080104

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A730BE

Registrant of record

FINCK DAVID L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5620P 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 · N5620P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LAREDO MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,548 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

29

Age

40

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR 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 2412. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2412.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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